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Voice & Fax: 818 768-5376 Catalog of 16mm Films Autumn 1990

Here are descriptions of more than two hundred 16mm fllms selected from the famous Blackhawk library: carefully-restored and beautifully-reproduced vtntage comedies, dramas, documentartes, cartoons and special-interest mov1es, many in Improved copies or new editions, some never before available. You·u find more than fifty rums announced for the first time in these pages: their titles are in bold type in lhe index on lhe inside front cover. we·re especially proud to ofTer ROOKIE OF THE YEAR. staning John Wayne, whJch Is one of only two televtslon films directed by the incomparable John Ford; a much better version of Laurel & Hardy in PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES. which restores five minutes of footage m1Ss1ng from all copies distributed since 1932; an "Our Gang· comedy. THE SPANKING AGE, which was Jong believed lost and which. now found, turns out to be enchanting; DESERT VICTORY and INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA. our first releases in a new series of BrUtsh classic documenlartes produced between 1929 and 1951 and printed from authentic negatives; a witty and spicy pre-code Flip the Frog cartoon, OFFICE BOY: Victor Seastrom ·s deeply-mov1ng early feature INGEBORG HOLM; rare and wonderful comedy shorts wi lh Charley Chase. Harry Langdon, Max Under, Larry Semon. Max Davidson .. and dozens of top-q uallty reprints from outstanding Blackhawk releases of the past many of them exceptional films whJch deserve your close consideration!

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CONTENTS AT A GLANCE

Index by TI tic ...... Inside front cover Animation ...... 21-23 Automobiles ...... 27 ...... Aviation ...... 27 Black History ...... 25 Roscoe Arbuckle ...... 12-13 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR * Charlie Chapltn ...... 6--8 (1955) $210 Charley Chase ...... 8-9 Early Cinema ...... 14-16 • Directed by John Ford · Starring John Wayne • Feature Ftlms ...... 17-20, 23 · Willi Vera Miles. Patrick Wayne, Russell Gleason D.W. Grtffith ...... 15, 16 and Ward Bond · Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent · The Hal Roach Studio .. 10-12 · Photographed by Hal Mohr · Buster Keaton ...... 9 Harry Langdon ...... _...... I 0 John Ford shut down production on The Searchers for a few days Laurel & Hardy ...... 1-3 to make this little-known television film with much of his same Thomas H. Ince ...... _... 17 cast and crew. one of a sertes of designed to prove the supertortty Stan Laurel ...... 10, 11 of motion pictures over live transmission for broadcast ROOKIE Max Llnder ...... _ ...... 16 OF1HE YEAR stars John Wayne as a small-time sports reporter Mack Sennett Studio ... 12, 13 whose big break could be h1s discovery that outstanding rookie Music.:...... 25 Patrick Wayne·s father. Ward Bond, was once a great ballplayer Ordering Information · disgraced in the Black Sox scandal. The colorlul characters, ...... Inside front cover humor and sentiment one associates with John Ford and his "OUr oang~ ...... 4--6 stock company are present in full measure: this excellent film ls Pathe Fr~ ...... 16 a real dtscovery! ShJpment restricted to destlnauons within the Pitts-Todd ...... 11 United States and Canada. 26 minutes. Railroad ...... 27 Snub Pollard ...... 11 Produced by Hal Roach Studios in association Larry Semon ...... 13 With the Screen Directors Guild. Todd-Kelly...... 11 The Vit:agraph Studio _, ...... 13 War ...... 24 and much more! ItNDEX AN[)) OIFIDimlNG mFOIRMATION

New Releases are lndlcated ln Bold face.

7 Adventurer, The 12 Fatal Glaas of Beer, The 6 Knockout, The 8 RJnk, The 8 All Teed Up 12 Fatty and Mabel A.drift s LaaaJllaa Grny 27 Romanuc Days of Flre Horses, Toe 24 AppcaaementalMunJch 12 Fatty'• TIA-type TuaJ• 3 Laurel and Hardy Murder Cue, The CTI a-Id• ol tlle Tear 12 Barney Oldlleld's Race for a We 23 Felix cat & Goose Golden ~ I Uberty 23 Room Ru.Mera 15 Ba.lUe al Elderbush Gulch, 'The 8 l"lnmaa.ne 17 Ll!e ol Ba!falo BUI, n.e 6 Ro1uuSen, ne 19 Ba1Ueshlp ~tankln ::r7 Jl'lnt GUddea Tour-1900, Tile ::r7 u,.t.. TU.a A1r 7 Shanghaied 11 Beauty and lhe Bua 4 1'1rst SeYal Ye&r9, 'The ::r7 L.oa1a, JtaJlroada of tile lfMt 11 Should Tall Men Marry? 7 Behind the SCt'ttn 8 l'loorwalker, 'The 24 London can Take It 13 s ..-.ne 2 BeklwZero 21 l'tylng Hlgh 5 Lucky aimer, The 10 Shrtmp, The 2 BerthMarka H P'oDlea, P'ofbl.. aad Jl"aMJou 14 Lumlere's l'lrst Picture Show ~ 80.at hemy, n.e 1 Big Business 18 Foolluwtne 6 Mabel's Marrted We 21 Sir Artllur Coaaa Do:,te 4 BlgEara 111 For W. 8oa 5 Mama's UlUe Pirate 21 Snappy Tunes 10 DIC Kick. ne 5 l"Orgotten Babies 19 Marriage Cln:le. The I Sona of lhe Desert 12 Big Moments from Uttle Pictures 10 45 Minutes Prom Hollywood 18 Mu Llader Dao, A 8pauiaiACe,1'1le 26 Blaze Busters 13 l'rauda u.d P'Nulea 14 M~ Tales ofTerror 20• Spills and Chills 24 BUlzkrtq!Torough Nazi Eyes 5 P'rttEats II MlbPriC)lt 4 Spook Spoofing 4 Bored of EducaUon 11 FreshPaJnt 13 -.a.- Fatty'• lleulde Lonn 23 Spooks 2 Brats I Prom Soup to Nuts 25 Moods of the Sea 6 Spooky Hooky 22 Brave Tin Soldier, The 22 P'Unnyl'llce 16 llon from tile hcllaated 8mdlo 14 Stolen Joola 17 Buffalo Bill'• Wild Weat s.__ 27 Gadgeta Galore 12 Morie Star, A 6 Teacller'a Bea 22 BUUoney 21 Ghost.a of Hollywood 3 Music Box. 'The 23 Tecbo-Cncked 10 Cllll ol tlle CUck- 18 Girt of lhe Golden West. The 18 llaueteera of Pie Alley 12 Teddy at tile 11uotUe 24 cameramen A1 War 27 Gra!Z,eppdln, The 25 Natural Bom Gambler, A 3 Their First MJatake 4 cat. Dog & Co. 14 Great naJn Robbery, The 17 Nero, or1be Burning Roll!O! s Dey Go Boom 8 Cha.sea of Plmple Street. The 9 Hasty Marriage, A 33 NrwCar,The 27 nua Mechanical Age 23 Childhood of Maxim Gorky, 'The II Boarts.Ano fllampe 16 N-TodlBat.TILe 24 Tilla Wu Yesterday 2 Chimp, The 5 Helping Grandma 7 NlghtOUt.A 16 TIIOse Awful Hats 15 Clnmia Magic of George Mtllta 2 Helpmates 10 Noon Whistle, The 27 Thunder of Steam In lhe Blue Ridge 12 Clner Dummy, A 5 Hide and Shr1ell: 22 OllkleBoy 9 TUUeWakea Up 27 Coast to Coast In 48 Hours 9 mci,c·a 19 Ollver""11t 18 Toll Gate, Tke 2 Come Cleu. 9 His Wooden Wedding 11 Oatlle1- 25 Toot 11lat Trumpet 9 Copa 2 HogWUd 8 OlleA.11. 11 Top Flat 7 c-at.ne 18 HomeSweetHome 9 OaelVe< 25 Toscanlnl Conducts Giuseppe Verdi 2 County Hospital 5 Hook and Ladder 23 Our Dally Bread 17 Tour of Thomas H. Ince Studios, A 8 Crazy 1J.1u, a Fl>X 3 BOOM-Oow, Tke 6 Our Gang l"OWes of 1936 :u TOWll,Tke 19 Crazy Ray, 'The 26 Horwehlde Heroes 1 l'llck Up Tour TroublM 18 Traffic In Souls 13 care tor PokedU.. A 2 2 Humpty Dumpty 20 Pandora's Box 18 Traaafonaatloll of lllke. nc 7 Cure. Toe 25 Hymn of lhe NaUona (Toscanini) 111 Puta to lloate Catto 14 Trip to the Moon, A 9 Dangerous Fi,maJes 26 I Never Forget A Face 8 Pawn Shop, The 1 'IWOTara 20 Daredevil Days 8 lmm.lgrant. The 19 Phantom of the Opera. 'The 3 Unaccustomed A!1 We Are 15 Dealh'a Marathon 17 In The Tenneaace Hilla 27 Pioneer Planes, Pilots and Oare:levlls 8 Vagabond, The u 0-rt Victory 17 IACebo'll Bollla 9 Pip from Pittsburgh, The 21 Voice of the Nlghllngale. Toe 4 Dtvot Diggers 211 Iutrameate ol tile Otcla ..tra 23 Plow that Broke the Plalns, The 1 Way Out Weal 1 Do Det.ectina 1'lllllk7 18 Intolerance 18 Poor UtUe Rich Glrl 27 Western Trains of Long Ago 19 Dong, Son ofZOrro :u It B•ppelled to Toa 23 Poto· Gold 27 When Steam Wu King 11 Doneln OU 11 rrsaGIJl 23 Prtvate We of King Henry Vlll. 'The 9 Wll.!aperl-, Wkoopce I Double Whoopee 22 Jack and lhe Beanstalk 13 Professional Patient. The 4 Wiggle Your Ears 6 Dough and Dynamlte 22 JackPl'oSl 9 Publlc Ghost t l 18 Wild and Woolly 8 EasyStrttt 24 Japanese Relocation 6 Pupa ls Pups 311 Woddolltlda,Tke 14 Edison Album. An 17 Judith of BethuJ1a 21 Puss 'N' Boot.a 1 Wrong Again 16 Enchanted Studio, The 10 Juat Jwablla& Alo.. 22 Queen of Heart.a. 'The 25 Yamecraw 19 Extra Girl, The 5 Kid From Borneo, The 15 Ranember, Then: are Ladles Present :a Toa're Dam Toothl'

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The Blackhawk 1'1ins roUedi>n Is rumed Cl1ld ~ rontents are copyrwht IQ1900 by Jillmlfflmmim&sociales • 8307SanF6'111ll1doRood • SWI Vale,/. CA 91352 • (8181768-5376 (phooe&FAX) DO DETECTIVES THINK? * Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy (1927) NEW EDillON I $145 Produced by Hal Roach Studios James Finlayson (,Judge Foozle) sentences t.he Tipton • Restricted to U. S. and Canada Slasher (Noah Young) to hang ·· "and I hope you choke!'' The Slasher vows revenge and escapes. and t.he judge hires protection In t.he persons of "Ferdinand F1nklebcrry ·· the Features second worst detective In t.he whole world" (Laurel) and ··sherlock Pinkham · - the worst" (Hardy). They manage to capture t.he crtminal despite the fact that they do not PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES * recognize him when he shows up al t.he Judge's home, posing (1932) $395 as t.he butler! Often described as t.he first real Laurel and Hardy fi1m, DO DETECTIVES 11-IINK? was available for Hen: Is the original uncut version of thl1 Laurel &'. Hardy decades only In prints so poor tJiat the Blackhawk catalog favorite - restoring more than ftve minutes of foota(e which copy apologized for them. At last. here is a clean, sharp, hu been mlulng from the fllm for decades, with all original sparkling edition of 1111s fun ny and inventive film, complete titles, improved plcture and belJ.<:1-r M>undl w1t.h all original Pat.he tttles. 22 min utes al 24 fps. s ilent.

It's 1917; Stan and Olllc are recruited fort.he Army ("Just as l thought ·· a couple o f crummy. no-good slackers!"); after DOUBLE WHOOPEE * I.heir wartime escapades, t.hey keep a promise made to their (1929) $145 bud dy ktlled in action , locate his little girl (the people a re n a m e d S m 1lh), and reunite her wtth her wealthy Stan and Ollie. as prospective hotel footman and doorman. grandparents. Wrote a critic for t.he New York Herald· are mistaken for v!stung royalty. Wh en Jean Harlow Tribune: '1:11e gags, if now and then somewha t mot.h-caten, alights from a cab and Footman Stan closest.he door on the kept t.he Capitol audience tn gales of laugh ter .... Or ratJ1er . It train of her gown. things really ge l rolling. Our current wou ld be more accurate to say t.he use of these gags by Mr. prints of DOUBLE WIIOOPEE are t.hc best available in more Laurel and Mr. Hardy." Directed by George Marshall; t.he than a decade and have an orchestral score. 21 minutes. sup porting cast Inc ludes Donald Dtllaway. C h arles Middleton, Billy Gilbert. Grady Sutton, James Finlayson. ,lac.'quie Lyn. 69 m inutes. FROM SOUP TO NUTS * (1928) $145 With I.heir experience (or lack of it) coming from railroad SONS OF THE DESERT * eateries. the boys arc waiters for a posh dinner party. Their (1933) $395 antics, as a lways, arc real audience-plcasers. but Anita Garvin as Mrs. Culpepper. the nouueau riche hostess "It has nothing at all to do with t.he desert, but plenty lo do desperate to Impress her friends, Is a scene-stealer. She wit.h real genuine laughter" wrote The Hollywood Reporter of p lays lo its fullest a tiara that won't stay put and a cherry t.hls outstand ing feature. Stan and Ollie are detem1lned to go that refuses to be caught. Silent. 20 minutes al 24 f.p.s. to their fraternal convention but I.heir wives have other ideas, so Ollie pretends to be sick and a ""doctor' orders him on a long sea voyage wit.h Stan In attendance. llomc from LIBERTY * t.he convention. t.hey learn that t.he ship thetr wives thought (1 929) $145 t.hey were on had wrecked! Wit.h Charley Chase. 66 minutes. Laurel and Hanly venture into daredevil comedy In UBERlY when they ply their craft on girders 200' above L.A. 111e special effects technology t.hat would have allowed t.hcm lo WAY OUT WEST * stay on the ground was still too new so t.hey shot for more (1 937) $395 ilian 15 days on a 3-story "girder" scl constructed on top t.he Western Costume building In downtown LA. 111ey end up there after iliey escape from prison, change Into plain "Seven reels of perfect joy, wtth the comedians cu their best clot.hes in a car and discover iliey're wearing each ot.her's plus tn brilltantly·timed routtnes, two song numbers as a pants. Their attempts to right t.he goof ls the comic theme on bonus." ·· flaUiwell's ftlm Guide which S tan and Ollte create a film full o f very funny. masterful variations. "Film Classics·· main lilies; MGM Lau rel and Hardy arc "tenderhcel"' desert prospectors In score from 1929 Vitaphone disc-s. 20 minutes. search oft.he daughter of a late friend who struck it rich. The daughter Is a slave In a saloon run by Jimmy Finlayson -· and Jimmy tries to pass off his wife as t.hc heiress. Out right TWOTARS * triu mp h s! Print,. have original main lilies except for the Blackhawk Indian s u perimposed over Leo the Lion. "Not (1928) $145 only one of th.cir most perfect films. it ranks with the best Two sailors on leave, Stan and Ollie pick up a couple of screen comedy anywhere." ·· Vauid Robinson, 1962. 6 6 nappers for a joy ride in t.hc country. En route t.hey minu tes. encounter a massive traffic jam. Ollie Intervenes, m otorists' tempers flare. and an endless line of Model Ts is more or less systemaUcally pulled apart. crushed. smashed or ot.hcrwlsc Silen t Shorts ruined. One of their funniest and most famous comedies. (some w ith added music scores) Silent. wit.h added music score; 22 minutes.

BIG BUSINESS * WRONG AGAIN * (19 29) $145 (1929) $145 When t.he famous ·· rnuc Boy" painting Is reported stolen. Stan and Ollie a re Christmas tree salesmen In sunny stable hands Stan and Ollie confuse It with "Blue Boy:· t.he California·· in July! Instead of peace on earth, a private war race horse. They try to return him lo t.he art collector who, ensu es with James Finlayson. almost devastating the unaware of the confusion . instructs them to bring il tn and n eighborhood. 'This Is one of the great comedy classics. put tl on the piano. A very funny film written and directed p rinted on color fil m with original silent tint and added by Leo Mccarey. with a wonderful orchestral score music score. 19 minutes. transferred from origina l 1929 Vltaphone discs. 21 min utes. YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' • (1928) $145

Working as bandsmen In a municipal orchestra, Stan and Ollie antagonize the conductor by missing their mwilcal cues and shuffling all the sheet music. Deciding that they'll ruin his performance no more, the conductor opens the door on a new career for the Boys, as street musicians. Playing clarinet and French Hom as best they can, the sidewalk twosome Is doing none too well. Falling through manholes, tang)lng with traffic, and quarreling with cops, the Boys arc spectacularly unsuccessful. Finally, tempers narc even between Stan and Ollie (Hardy says, "I wouldn't mind training a seal or an elephant -- but you're hopeless"), precipitating an eye-poking, coat-ripping, shin-kicking. pants-pulling exchange that soon envelops scores of passersby In a huge frcc-for-alll It's all topped by what ts probably Laurel and Hardy's neatest closing gag ever. The synchronized music and effects. particularly on a stlent repeatedly coaxtng "Ethel" back to bed, and rages In, revolver comedy with music as Its theme, make a great addition to a In hand. There arc good circus gags and an especially funny teniflc film! Supervised by Leo McCarcy; directed by Edgar and sweet scene with chimp Ethel (In a ballet sktrt) and Kennedy. 21 minutes. Stanley dancing the night away. All this and a lot more fun before Dilly's revolver ends up In our Ethel's hands for a really big ending. 26 minutes. Sound Shorts COMECLEAN * BELOWZERO • (1931) $145 (1930) $145 Ollie and his wife arc looking forward to a quiet evening at home -- only to have the doorbell ring and discover "those Laurel and Hardy arc street musicians -- Stan Is on the Laurels." The Boys go out for some ice cream and, on thclr portable organ, and Ollie plays bass -- passing a hat for what way home. arc Innocent spectators at Mac Busch's "suicide." meager Income comes their way. But then they find a They bring her to the Hardy's apartment and spend a hectic billfold and bills, Invite the cop on the beat to lunch. and evening trying to hide the llooztc from thctr wtvcsl With Mac discover the wallet ts his! Or1glnal main Utles; 21 minutes. Busch and Gertrude Astor; "Ftlm Classics" lilies. 22 minutes. BERTH MARKS • (1929) $145 COUNTY HOSPITAL • (1932) $145 Stan and Ollie arc a "big time" vaudeville team enroute from one theater to another In the upper berth of an open section Ollie Is In traction recovering from an accident. and Stan pullman. Only the second Laurel & Hardy talkie, the film Is pays a visit with a sympathy gift of hard-bolled c81{;J and largely Improvised and Is based on Stan's memories of life nuts! But the visit turns out to be more adverse to Ollie's as a travelling music-hall performer. Original main Utlcs; well-being than the accident. COUN'IY HOSPITAL was the 21 minutes. first two-reel comedy ever chosen for showing at the famous Roxy Theater In New York. 19 minutes. BRATS • (1930) $145 HELPMATES * (1932) $145 Playing both fathers and soos. Stan and Ollie babystt their respective Juniors. Chips off the old blocks, the Junior One of their best short films. Ollie and Stan hurriedly clean destroyers almost break up the long friendship between thctr house (at least that's what they mean to do) after a wild party parents. Ovcrstzcd sets and props used to create the Illusion the night before and on learning Ollie's Wife ts due In from of the Boys as boys make BRATS unique. Original main Chicago at noon. Stanley finally gets the place spotless after titles; 21 minutes. Oliver leaves, late, for the train station. Friend Stan's finishing touch is to build a chcciy ''welcome home" fire. but the gasoline he pours on the fake logs Is not the solution. Olllc returns with a black eye and no wife to find Stan THE CIDMP * hosing down what's left of the house. This Jewel wraps up (1932) $210 poignantly with Oliver sitting In the rain In the roofless remains of his house. "Film Claasics" titles; 21 minutes. THE CHIMP was the first of several L&H comedies with Imaginatively animated opening title sequences. In this case two clowns holding a trampoline which rips to reveal each title. Previously unavailable. we're delighted to announce HOGWILD • our prints have the original main titles restored. Beyond the (1930) $145 stunning Utica, we find Stanley being paid off with a flea circus and Ollie with Ethel "the human chimpanzee" when Ollle has promised his wife he will put a radio aerial on the the ctrcus they work for goes broke. Ala "Angora Love," they roof and Stan arrtvcs Just tn time to "help." The climax have to hide their new assets from the landlord. The chimp comes when the ladder to the roof, balanced on top of a takes over the best bed forcing the boys to sleep In the less Model T, takes off In city tral1\c with OIIJc on top and Stan good one commandeered by the 11cas. Landlord BIiiy Gilbert, along but not really at the wheel. "Film Classics" main whose wife's name happens also to be Ethel, hears Hardy titles; 20 minutes. 2 ·------···-····-·-·--····-·----·-··-··------THE HOOSE-GOW * (1929) $ 145 black cats, and a stormy night complete with lightning flashes. screams. murder and suspects. Why? All because "One of Laurel and Hardy's best early talktc.<1" according to historian Randy S k redvedt. THE HOOSE-GOW from Ollie thtnks Stan ts the long-lost heir of the late tycoon Blackhawk Is better yet because we arc ustng excellent new Ebeneezer Laurel! Murder In the worst degree ... dare we say "you11 dtc laughing"? Ortglnal main titles; 28 minutes. picture and sound ncgaUvcs. with all original titles. Set In the days of prohibition. our boys are among the occupanl.'I of a paddy-wagon being delivered to the penitentiary because they were "watching a raid"! TI,cy prove themselves no more THE MUSIC BOX * adept at dealing with JaJl than at escaping It -- but the grand climax Is a gooey rice-throwing mclec which bcginii when ( 1932, Academy Award for Best Short) $210 Stan tries to plug a leak. chopped by Ollie's pick, tn the radiator of the governor's official earl With Tiny Sandford, Stan and Ollie must deliver a player piano up a very long, Jimmy Finlayson; 18 minutes. very sleep flight of steps lo the home of Professor 1bcodorc von Schwanho!Tcn (Dilly Gilbert). Sisyphus reduced lo the absurd. Ortgtnal maln lttles; 30 minutes. LAUGHING GRAVY * (1931) $145 THEIR FIRST MISTAKE * This Laurel & Hardy comedy of 1931 Is considered by many (1932) $145 lo be a talking version of their silent comedy of two years previous ly. Angora Love. We'll admit that there arc Ollie is married lo Mac Dusch who is none too happy about stmtlartttes, b ut a story built around a goat (as in Angora his being out every night with bachelor friend. Stan. Stan Looel as opposed lo an appealing little dog [as in Lauglung offers a solution -- a baby lo occupy Mac -· and a quotable Gmuy) sets up an cn ltrcly different Interplay of sllualtons In moment. ''You know. I'm not as dumh as you look." Stan ancl the film and of sympathies a nd responses In the audtcrwc. Ollie get a baby and then discover Mae has left for good. The Except for the landlord played by Charlie Hall. the drunk by new baby creates a new set of problems and laughs. 21 Arthur Houseman, and the very brief appearance of an minutes. officer of the la w. th is film Is all Laurel and I lardy -- and the little dog, Laughing Gravy -· and the attempt of the boys to give shelter In their room lo their animal friend on a cold and snowy winter's night. (Phonetic Spanish Reel 3 ts a l<10 THEY GO BOOM * available; sec next descrtpllon.l (1929) $145

Stan is taking care of Ollie who has a cold, but in the course of his ministration s h e punctures a water pipe. parboils his LAUGHING GRAVY (1931) paltent's feet. and even tually destroys the whole one-room apartment which Ollie rents from long-suffering Charlie SPANISH REEL THREE * llall. Laurel and Hardy's fifth talkie for Hal Roach, the film Separately, $75.00 mines every comic possibili ty of Its one-set situation. If ordered with the complete film In Englb h, $65.00 Dlackhawk enhanced t11c original sound from disc with a formidable explosion whic h was evidently beyond the In the early years of talkies. Laurel & Hardy pcrfomted tn recording capability of 1929 (when a &runshol had to suffice!) Spanish. French. German and Italian versions of some of 2 1 minutes. their movies. The boys managed the foreign tongues with help from dialogue coaches and phonetic translallon"; native speaker" often replaced the English cast tn s upporting roles. We arc told that Laurel & I iardy's a wful UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE * pronuncialion made their films funnier Urnn ever In foreign lands. (1929) $145 UNACCUSTOMED AS WE /\HE. Laurel and Hardy's first The Spanish las I reel of Li\UGI IING GHAVY begins just before the present end lng of the English film and consists o f sound comedy. opens with the original main titles. Next. we a long. extra ::icquencc made for all versions but Tclaincd find Ollie bringing frt,·ncl SI.an home for dinner -- without only for export. perhaps because the gay subtext ts a bit too any advance warning lo his wife. who's had enough and goes blatant. In il. Laurel (Flaco) is offered an tmmcn~e home to mother. WHh Ollie and Stan on their own. Ollie inheritance provided he leaves Hardy (Gordo). Sa1irlztng announces that he'll "cook a meal like you've never eaten!" every lachrymose ending ever filmed. Stan eventually After t},e oven blows up. the l lardy's neighbor. Mrs. Kennedy. chooses Ollie over wealth. Most of the dialogue ts tn the wife of Officer Kennedy. comes over lo help. llul Mrs. competent mouth of the Hi.«panic actor who replaces Charlie Kenne dy loses her dress In the kilchen chaos just about the Hall a s the landlord, but Stan has a few lines and O11te time Officer Kennedy appears on the scene. She hides, but speaks quite a bit. There arc no English subtitles. but wtth imagine the spot our innocent boys arc in. 22 minutes. each copy sold we will send the detailed synopsis from Randy Skretvedt's outstand ing book Laurel & //ard11 7he Magic Behind tlic Movtes (reproduced wtlh the au-lhor·s permission). 11 mmutcs. 'Ont of the 6est movie 600¼ o-f al{ ti=· .. 'West Coast 'l

Herc's a creepy "haunted house" thnller that burlesques the avaifa6u from 'Moort.Stont Press, P.O. 'Bo;i: 142, 'lJtveny :J{i{[s, 0 1 old-dark-house mysteries of the 1920's. S tan a nd Olhc 90213. Taper6a,;.(; $14 95 + SI SO postage ana F.a,11ffin1p California become Involved wtth a strange butler. the police. heirs. rtsitkn IJ a,[,/ 14.1:.

3 "Our Gang'' Comedies with Hal Roach's Little Rascals • Restricted to U.S. and Canada Sound Shorts

Silent Shorts BIG EARS* (with added music scores) (1931) $145 CAT, DOG & CO. * Stymie and Whcc:zer put their heads together to try and (1929) detour Whee:zcr's squabbling parents from divorce court. $145 Their contrivance succeeds, leaving Wheczer with reunited parents and a very ,ilck tummy. Slymic',i quips are Joe, Far1na and Harry are racing lhctr one-dog-power kiddie Incisively funny; Pete the Pup steals nearly every scene he's cars when Mrs. President of the Be Kind to Animals Society, In, and lndMdual sequences arc delightfully charming. The played by Hedda Hopper, convinces lhcm that they should subject, however, Is divorce, which may be awkward to more greatly revere all life. They set out to persuade the expla in to kids who might attend your screcnln~. The short others, including Wheczcr who (In a well done special effects ts "rare," though, Insofar as It Is frequently censored and sequence) envisions himself dwarfed by giant animals shelved by local 1V stations across the country. Ortglnal dressed as humans who Inform him that he is on trial for main titles; 22 minutes. en.icily lo animals. The hilarious climax has the gang, now of one mind, sweeping lhrough town freeing every beast In Culver City, much to the alarm of its citizens who find themselves swtmmtng In a sea of mice, rabbits, chickens, BORED OF EDUCATION * frogs, cats, rats and dogs. &ore from 1929 Vltaphone disc; (1936, Academy Award Winner) $75 original main Utlcs. 21 minutes. Facing a new school year and a new teacher, Spanky and Alfalfa contrive to skip class by rigging a phony, bulging THE SPANKING AGE * toothache with a balloon. Their scheme seems to work. (1928) $165 Problem Is, once they've left class, the would-be truants discover their pretty, new teacher has arranged an Ice cream Newly restored, TIIE SPANKING AGE Is one of the rarest party to teach them a lesson, and now the two fakers have to extant Our Gang comedies, never televised nor circulated on gel back ll'ITO school. Except for the balloon stopper he film s ince Its first release by MGM In 1928. It's also a real swallows, Alfalfa's In fine voice for the finale song, "Believe charmer! Mc. If All Those Endearing Young Charms.'· BORED OF EDUCATION. a slick remake of the more famous Whcczcr and Mary Ann are neglected In favor of their n:ACHER'S PET, was the first Our Gang single reeler after stepmother's own unctlous child, Jean Darling. The old fifteen years of the two reel format and the winner of the meanie abuses the lwo kids, who take tt out on Pete the Pup, Academy Award for Best Short Subject of 1936. Original who In tum goes after the cal. "Spanked if they did, spanked main titles; 11 minutes. if they didn't ... so they did ...", Mary Ann decides lo throw an elegant party with homemade shrimp salad and Invites the Gang to the culinary disaster which results. DIVOT DIGGERS * Beyond Its wit and general felicity, 1HE SPANKING AGE Is a (1936) $145 real stylistlc experiment. Its camera always assumes the child's point of view, so adults are shown only from the Our Gang Is out for a game of golf, complete with a set of waist down. Perhaps director Robert McGowan was tired of custom clubs ·· a la dling spoon, hammer, billiard cue, the publicity being given to fancy Imported filmmakers and shovel. bcan-shoolcr, and other Imaginative devices. After wanted to show that even the humble two-reel comedy could digging plenty or divots of their own. they arc recruited by a scale the heights of cinema art! Very nice prtnls; score from desperate caddy master for a foursome of duffers. It's all MGM Vttaphonc discs. 20 minutes. topped off by a wild chase over the c ourse when Jiggs, the Gang's pet chimp, takes off in a runaway lawnmower. This is the last Our Gang picture directed by series mentor Bob SPOOK SPOOFING * McGowan, and one of his finest ever, easily ranking among (1928) $145 the top ten of all 222 Our Gang comedies. ll is absolutely fresh and undated, brimming with sight gags. heart, fun, l'arina, Joe. Whcczcr and all lhe Gang have a comedy here of acl!on, peppy background music ... where forty laughs per graveyards and ghosts ideal for Halloween. Farina brags reel ts part With Sp:mky. Alfalfa , Buckwheat. Porky, Darla, that his "mumbo jumbo" charm will protect him: Toughy Pde the Pup and Jiggs the Chimpanzee. Original main titles; picks a fight, and when Farina Invokes the charm, Toughy IS minutes. pretends to die. The last laugh Is on the pranksters when they experience an eclipse of the sun . Pipe organ score by John Muri. 22 minutes. THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS * (1930) $145 WIGGLE YOUR EARS * (1929) $145 This "Our Gang" comedy explores the age-old situation of two boys (Jackie Cooper and "Speck" Ha ines) seeking the affection of one girl (Mary Ann Jackson). A friendly rivalry Mary Ann loves that Hany can wiggle his cars: but when degenerates Into fisllcufTs and finally Into a duel. Instead of Jean comes on the scene, Harry says he"ll wiggle only for her each other, they manage to cul hanging laundry. car tires. from now on. Farina counsels Mary Ann that the way to barn doors and even Innocent bystanders. They enlist the win her man back ts to be a napper, so that's what she does. aid of officer Edgar Kennedy. Speck's dad, Jackie's grandma, Meanwhile Joe Is after Mary Ann's affccUons and decides and even Pete. the halo-eyed pup. 19 minutes. the surest way to woo her ts to wiggle hts ears. So he goes after her with an elaborate device and with the Gang at the "... lh e first real ''winner·· of the sound era, a delightful s hort wiggle controls. The musical score ts synchroni7..ed from the that works In every respect. .." ·· Leonard Mallin and Rlchard 1929 MGM Vttaphone discs. 21 minutes. w. Bann. Our Gang; The Yfe and Drnes or the Utl)c Rasc;a\s. 4 ------·······-···-···--·------·----·

FORGOTTEN BABIES * (1933) $145 Spanky's friends are burdened by rcsponstbtltty · · school all HOOK AND LADDER • week and baby-sitting on Saturdays with no time for skinny (1932) $145 dipping or Oshlng. A little peer pressure plus a touch of blackmall puts Spanky in charge of all the baby brothers Every kid dreams of being a fireman, but the Gang decides to and sisters. Spanky holds the little darlings spellbound live Its dreams. Their fire engine Is an amazing contraption temporarily as he tells a harrowing Tanan tale, punctuated that wobbles from side to side, but they actually succeed In with growls and ferocious faces, but his troubles begin when putting out a fire. With Dickie Moore, Stymie, Spanky and the story ends. Pint-sized energies explode in a ll cllrecttons Spud. Original main titles: 19 minutes. a nd nothing Is safe. The chaos cltmaxes when a radio mystery story, a phone operator and the police become part of the fracas. 17 minutes. TIIE KID FROM BORNEO * FREE EATS * (1933) $145 (1932) $145 Spanky's ne'er-do-well uncle comes to the Gang's h ometown The Gang Is Invited to a lawn party. Among the others to show a wild man from Oomeo: the kids mistake the present: two midget plckpock et/safccrackcrs clre,1secl as attraction for the lmprcssario. ''What makes him so black?" Infants. This was the debut film of Spanky McFarland. then asks Stymie. "My mother says he's the black sheep of the aged three. Spanky could barely walk and talk but his family," replies Dickie Moore. There's lots of aclton when presence before the camera is already natural and cham1lng. the Gang thinks the wild man from Borneo Is going lo eat Other Gang members include Stymie. Whcczcr and Dorothy the m. "I don't think I'll taste so good," says Spanky, "Mom DeOorba; the adult players include Dilly Gilbert and Dell says I'm spoiled ." A comedy with good dialogue and effective Henderson. 19 minutes. gag<;. Original main titles; 19 minutes.

HEARTS ARE TIIlJMPS * (1937) $75 THE LUCKY CORNER * (1935) $145 It's Valentine's Day a t school, and the boys and gtrl,. exchange valentines, all except those sturdy individualis ts Jrrevcrence for pretentious people is a frequent t11cmc in the Spank, Alfalfa and Buc kwheat. Spanky swears his comedies directed by Gus Mclns. Few Illustrate the concept companions into the I le -Man/Woman-1 latcr.s Club. They of upsetting stuffed shirts as well as 11-fE LUCKY CORNER, promise "not to fall for th!" valentine business because girls where the meanies arc a father and son who operate a diner arc bunk." But, the boys hadn·t reckoned on Darla. No and MIKE FRIGHT * first? Will the cheat get the store? (Don't be too surcl) The (1934) $145 story outline may be melodrama , but the film Itself ts pure. unadulterated comedy, with lots of clever quips and funny starring Spanky, Scotty, Stymie, Tommy Oond and Leonard ga~ for Stymie, Wheezer, Jackie Cooper and Chubby, and a Kibrick with James C. Morton. C harlie Ha ll and Marvin rousing, lnllicate Incidental music score to enhance ll all llatky Original main titles; 21 minutes. The Gang enters their International Silver String Submarine Oand in an audition on a radio broadcast. The HIDE AND SHRIEK * station manager needs lo Impress a skeptical sponsor so he (1938) $75 recruits what he believes to be the finest kiddie talent available. Our Gang's makeshift band Is a last minute entry, The Gang spoof:, detectives, gets packed in crates, and booked over the phone. sight unseen. The name of their encounters ... "ghosts." The last Our Gang Comedy produced group at least sounds Important. Arriving at the stalton, the shabby-looking Little Rascals disrupt everyone from the by Hal Roach Studios. the featured kids arc Alfalfa, elevator operator to the harried on-air announcer. Since n o Buckwheat, Porky and Darla. Original main titles; 11 minutes. one believes ragamuffin kids carting such junky-looking

5 homemade Instruments could possibly be any good, the Gang's number Is postponed, and Instead the studio audlcncc Charlie Chaplin Is treated to a parade of ultra-cutesy chtld-acts. such as an ensemble of pint-sized chorines cooing "Honolulu Baby." Both Our Gang and the sponsor arc under-whelmed, to say the least, by thcac well-rehearsed professional kiddies who 'l1ie 9(f,ystone Cometfies just know they're adorable. The sponsor decides he's heard Cliap{in came to tk movies in Cate 1913 wfun Fu was quHc enough, and heads for the exit. With no one left to perform, the desperate manager summons the raggedy SVf"t4 6y MactSermett to appwr in ~ystotu Comdits. lntcrneUonal Silver St.ring Submarine Band. As he follows 'During flis time tliere, Cnarlu. fumei flis styu 6asei on the sponsor to the door, both arc stopped short by lhc Gang's pantomime sfj([s from Fus m~ ftd£ days, a-ml flis wmdy surprisingly stirring rendition of 'The Man on the Flying Trapeze"; the music these enthusiastic kids ere making just diaracter toolform. %tfwueli. Fu 6egan at a gerurou.s fits the but, and 90 Our G~ gets the Jobi $150 awut Fu was SVf"t4 6y 'Essanay at $1250 aWtelin Phonics, stuffed shirts, and prissy kids always bring out the 'Decem6er, 1914. best In Our Gang, es MIKE FRIGHT demonstrates so wonderfully well. The vicarious enjoyment we experience et watching the down-to-earth Ultlc Rascals puncture pretense DOUGH AND DYNAMITE Is a tonic one can never gel loo much of. MIKE FRIG! IT Is just such a tonic. lrs funny, endearing, and never falls to bring (1914) $145 an appreciative audience lo life. 18 minutes. The baker's stnkc Is on -- but how long can It last with Charlie Chaplin and Chester Conklin es two welters turned paslcy cooks? Long enough to wipe out the management end OUR GANG FOLLIES OF 1936 • roll out greet laugh,. DOUGH AND DYNAMllE cemcd (1935) $145 approximately $130,000 In Is flrat year of relcB9C by Mutual and thousands more ln subscqucst reissues. Then and now, The Gang stages a polished musical revue In their cellar 1t Is one of Chaplin's most technically sophisticated and theater all by themselves. The string of charming novelty popular Keystone comedies. The prints have all original sets Includes Alfalfa's parody of Gene Autry -- and a total tttlcs. Sllcnt. 31 minutes et 18 f.p.s. cast of more than one hundred chtldrcn. Original main titles; 18 minutes. THE KNOCKOUT (1914) $145 PUPS IS PUPS • (1930) 1rs the fight of the century -- Fatly (Roscoe Arbuckle) vs. $145 Cyclone F1ynn (Edgar Kennedy). How did Fetty get lnto this mess? Simple •· he's practiced punching Al St. John for 90 The Gang enters their pets (cvCI)'thlng from a parrot to a ptgl bng he can't lose. The money's on our local boy even though In a high-society pct show, which turns Into a shambles the odds and Rcfcrcc Charlie ere with Cyclone. While Fetty when the unruly critters appear. With Wheeur, Farina, wins with the help of Mack Swain's six-shooters, the two­ Jackie Cooper and Chubby, this ts one of the most charming man bout becomes a classic Keystone chase, complete with of all the ntms In this long series. Original main titles; 19 those knockabout clowns of the cinema. the Keystone Cops. minutes. This silent comedy Is excerpted In the recent Ctnema furodiso and ts a very presentable print copied from a 35mm fine grain master. 30 minutes el 18 fps. SPOOKY HOOKY • (1936) $75 MABEL'S MARRIED LIFE Circus wagons clatter by the schoolyard one hot afternoon. (1914) $75 As class adjourns, Spanky, Alfalfa. Buckwheat, and Porky conjure up strangely communicable colds. After placing a Chaplin's 19th film and the last In which he was directed by phony wr1llen "cncurc" on the tcacher·s desk, they discover someone else -- In this Instance, co-star Mabel Normand. that she has planned a class trip to the circus for -- the same The plot Is based on a combination of perk fllrtellons day. Colds tum to cold sweat as our Geng tncs to repossess among various manicd Individuals end Charlie's stage­ that note locked Inside the school. Mer an unsympetheUc proved drunk act; the threads come together ln a very funny janitor refuses them entrance, our pint-sized heroes plan a sequence when splfllcetcd Charlie mistakes a sparring nocturnal break-In. Winds howl and rain falls upon their dummy for edvers&JY Meck Swain. With added music score somewhat shaky return. A skeleton, a janitor. and the by Gaylord Carter~- 16 minutes. Rascals, ell In the dark school, make the climax exciting and the resolution typically delightful. Original main titles; I I mlnutes. THE ROUNDERS (1914) $75

TEACHER'S BEAU • Fetty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Minta (1935) $145 Durfee. Phyllis Allen, Al St. John

The Little Rascals--Spanky, Scotty Beckett, Alfalfa, Charlie and neighbor Fetty err1vc home tipsy and ere met Buckwhea t. Stymie, and ell the othcra--lcem that their by their Irate wives. Such a loud fuss ensues across the hall lovely teacher, Miss Jones. Is to be married. Ralph. her that Charlie's wife sends him to atop the mayhem. Soon fiencce. says their next teacher will be a grouchy ogre named everyone ts Involved In the fracas, and while the wtves swtng Mrs. Wilson. The Rascals concoct all sorts of schemes to at each other, the boys slip away. Outstanding ensemble keep the marriage from happening. but they all backfire, playing by Chaplin and Arbuckle; very good print qualJty. especially when Ralph announces that Miss Jones Is to One of the most enjoyable Keystones. 13 mlnutcs et 18 fps, become Mrs. Ralph Wilson! 19 mlnules. sllent. 6 'Ilie 'Essanay Comu[ies 'During the 'Essanay period, Cliaplin hegan to COtTU into liis own. Camphe{l, wili escape only to stumhle awk__waraly into anotfitr ~tli more ti= aevotei to prepamticn, liis uniqiu. talent was in lay ana rrwrc trou6k. 'Ifu. little tramp is reafly liis own worst greater eviaenu, witli kss ana kss aepenaenu on s!ap.stid;_ enemy, a victim of /ii.s own natuu--restkss, easily dis tractu{, .Afmrut a££ of tfz.e Cliaplin 'Dsanays are two-rukrs, ana a££ were sdfiniulgent anafiercely initptnient. ''Julfi[[ing t fit Mutual painstaf;j119{y proauatf. 'But /us popu{arity SO SkiJJ'O<-~tta in contract, l suppose, was tfz.e liappies t perioa of my career, ' 1915 tliat Mutual was a6k to silJn /iim away from 'F..ssanay in reca[[d Cliaplin nearfy fifty years later. '[ was light ana '.fe6ruary, 19 16. unencumherul, twenty-seven years oU, witfi f ahulous prospec ts anti a friena[y, gw.morous woruf hefore me. ~tfu n asliort time { woultf he a ,nj{[ionaire ·· it a££ seemea sliglidy maa. ' :Film A NIGHT OUT Puseroation awns antf nas tirarvn upon tfu. fines t suroiving (1915) $145 35mm film rz.egatives ana masters in prtpari"{J these edi tions of tlie famow Cliaplm Mutuals. 'Ifu. music scores Wert adad hy Charlie Chaplin and Ilen Turpin have been trying to drtnk the town dty. Not sober enough to know where he ts. Charlie tfit 'Van 'Beuren Curporation in 1932-34 ana require projection goes up to the ho tel desk, tries to put his foot on a phantom at 24 fr= per secona. '11te.se ufitions are fuliy titka. brass raH and drtn k the In k . The momlng a fter lncludt-.s a custard p ie. a dun king In the fountatn and more chasing. A NIGi-IT OUT was rclcasc:d by Es..'lallay on February I 5, 1915, and Is presented here as tt ortg!nally appeared. It marks the THE ADVENTURER first screen appearance o f Edna Purviance, who played In all (1917) $ 145 but two of Charlie's fi lms between I 9 IS and 1923. Silent. 26 minutes a t 18 f.p.s .. 11-lE ADVENTIJRF.R, Charlie Chaplin's last fil m for the Mutual Company, was upon initial r elease also the mosl popular. Built on his favorite themes of Impersonation a nd SHANGHAIED mistaken idenltty, It ts a fast-paced, action-filled farce In (1915) $145 which escaped convict Charlie, posing as a Commodore, ends up a guest In IJ-i e home of the Judge who sent him up, The ship owner figure" that his best chat1cc lo come out comp~ling with villainous Elie Cam pbell for the a ffections flnanctally is to find a way to collect the tnsurancc money. oflllzzoncr's daughter. Edna. To escape the pursuing police, Cha rlie at one point s uccessfully d isguis es himself as a With Chaplin are Wesley Rugivcs, cast as the shiµ owner. !<1mpl 21 minutes. Edna Purviance as h ts daughter: John Rand a,:; the :,hip's mate: a nd Bllty Annstrong, Paddy McGuire and Leo White as the shanghaied m en. Among the highlights is Charlie's a ttempt to sc:rve meals aboard the rocking ship. 26 minutes al 18 fps, s ilen t. BElllND THE SCREEN (1916) $145

A parody of life a l the Mack &nnetl studio with Charlie as David, the assistant stagehand lo lazy Goliath, b lilltantly %e 9vfutua{ Come.dies played by Elie Campbell wh o earned screen tmmortaltty as Cliarus Spencer Cliaplin silJnd II contract W!t!i tfz.e Mutual the "heavy" tn this comedy sclies. The wind-up ts a pie fight '.fifm Corporation on '.fe6ruary 25, 191 6, at an unprewfentd tn end them all. 21 minutes. $670,000 f or n serus of twelve two-rul coT11.eay protfr.u.tions. 'ft = ans tliat f am left free to he just as funny a..s I aare, · announced Cliaplin, 'to ao tfu 6est ·w<>rk. tfr.at is in me . . ' THE COUNT '1Jtf!in11ing in 'Mardi ana for tfu. rz.e,tt Ji,tteen nwr"/is, Cliaplin (1916) $145 Supervised protfuction, flffO tt, tfirulU{ 1111/f Stllrrta m twelve The fifth o f Chnplin"s famous selies of comedies m ade for two-red wmufics tliat for pure vitality, conciseness c:rul Mutua l is c haracterized by fast action and fine examples of imagination liave remai~a tlie mast astonislii"{J ar./iz.evur~nt of Chaplin pantomime. Charlie. a very bad tailor's assistant, liis career. fn 6reat/itaf(jng stuu.won nwn1/i hy nwntfi uu11e Is fLrCd by the boss (Elie Campbell) who s ubsequently fi nds a note from his customer, Count Droko, expressing regrets to 'Ifu. '.f/,oorwalf:!r (May, 1916), :fireman (June, 1916), 'T"ne 'Im Miss Moneybags (Edna Purviance) becau se he Is u nable to 'Vagahona (July, 1916), Otte )f.M . (!il.UfJUSt, 1916), 'Ifu. Count attend her party. Eric impersonates the Cou n t while Charlie (September, 1916), 'I1u. 'Pawns/iop (October, 1916), 'Btfimti tfit ls vl,itttng In the servants' quarte rs a t the Moneybags S creen ('J,{pvemher, 1916), 'Tfu. 'Junl ('Deam6er, 1916), ana al mansion. Of <"oursc, ex-boss and ex-em ployee recognize each other, and Charil<: Is thus Introduced as the secretary of the only a s{iglit{y slower tempo, 'ulsy Strut (January, 1917), 'Tfu fake count. Charlie takes fu ll advantage o f IJ-ic s ituation ,md Cure (Jlfprt[, 1917), 'I"fu. Immigrant (June, 1917), anti 'T"lie of the c hance lo dance wtlJ-i Miss Mon eybags, a comic fllave11t urer (Octo6er, 1917). fn t!iese twelve two-rulers, highlighr of the film . 2 1 nunutes. Cliaplin is tlie flirt, t/ie romantic, tlie etemnl opportunist wliase quicf;Ju..ss of mind anti pliysicnl ie,ttenty give fiirn advantage over the mast ru/i ana powerful. fn tliem, lie is tlie inspird THE CURE huffoon wlio ezyoses man 's vice ana foffy, fus ah uses ana (1917) $145 sliortccmi"{JS, yet in some aivine gesture finds meaning to life 1n In this comedy. Charlie appears as a sop htstlcated bon tfit strengt!i ana heauty of iaeaf love. ft is stra"{Jtly ironic tliat vivant, addicted to alcohol and visiting one of the "sprtngs" a haggy-trouserd intiiviaual witli fwppy slioes, cane ana aerhy, of the day where the "c ure" ts a dministered. But the wlio wall;§ wit!i an awtwara s!iuffle can, in one miraculous revolving door snares him; he tries to snare Edna who Is instant, kap anti 6ouni, pirouette ana sfiae tlirougfi 1/ie air wit Ii trying to ward ofT lecherous, gout-lidden Ertc Campbell: his massage tums lnlo a delightful tableau and ba llet. and his tfit ease of an aerialist. 'But t!iis sprite, tliis imp wlio can f(y s tash of liquor finds its way into the minera l s pling with t!irougli tfu. fegs anti cfutcfung liarufs of mountainous 'Enc devastating and hila n ous resull

7 EASY STREET THE RINK (1917) $145 (1916) $145

Charlie ts "saved" when he visits the Rescue Miaslon on Ea9y Charlie la a clumsy watter who serves a ltve cat to a Street, the toughest neighborhood In town, and he falls in n:ataurant patron and makes out the check by examining love wtth evangelist Edna. Determined to make good, he what Mr. Stout has sptllcd on his suit. Then It's off to Edna's becomes a pa trolman. Policemen never return from Easy skating party, where Chaplin shows amazing grace and Street, but Charlle triumphs: "Love backed by force, agility on roller skates. Love, jealousy, falls and speed Forgiveness sweet, Bring hope and peace to Ea9y Street." combine In a ftlm favonte. 22 minutes. Bltndtngly funny and deeply moving -- and this Is the best­ looking 16mm print of this comedy available In decades. 20 minutes. THE VAGABOND (1916) $145

THE FIREMAN This Is Charlie In an oµtstandtng performance as a street (1916) $145 violinist, and In a ftlm , which more than any other up lo that time, antlctpates the pathos that was to become so much with Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Uoyd Bacon, Leo a part of Chaplin's later great ftbns such as 'The Kid, The Gold White, John Rand, Frank J . Coleman and James T. Kelley Rush and CUy Lights. Charlie bcfr1cnds and rescues a young girl, played by Edna Purviance, who has been kidnapped by Charlie Is drtver of a pumper wagon In this one and gets gypsies. Through a aeries of circumstances, her wealthy Involved In an arson plot hatched by his girl's father and ftre mother locates her and takes her back home, leaving chief, Eric Campbell. When the lady gets trapped In the ftrc, Charlie heartbroken and alone. But there ts a happy ending. he rushes to the scene minus most of the engine, but makes 2S mlrrutcs at 24 fps. an heroic rescue anyway. One of our best-looking Mutual prints, the comedy also gains by substantial location work around semi-rural Los Angeles. 21 minutes. Charley Chase THE FWORWALKER (1916) $145 ALL TEED UP • Charlie's firs t comedy In this famou s group of twelve (1930) $145 Mutuals has him dealing with a pair of escalators (and a department store detective) In escapades In the slapstick Charley Chase meets Thelma Todd a l a lunch counter, and tradition of his earlier Keys tone and Essanay productions. pretends to be a golfer when he doesn't even know the game In the process, he thwarts some skullduggcry on the part of U8CS clubsl An amazing run of beginner's luck ends when the ma nager making off wtth the day's receipts -- and he crusty Dell Henderson conks Charley wtth a ball. which wins the girl. 22 minutes. leads to devastation on the links. But Thelma meant him to go to the course across the street, so all's well until he asks her father, Edgar Kennedy, about the stock markeU Kennedy THE IMMIGRANT also directed this well-paced comedy, and there's nice (1917) balance between visual and verbal humor, clever use of non­ $145 synchronous sound, and a lovely over-the-shoulder look at semi-rural Los Angeles. But the big surprise comes when Edna and Charlie arc steerage passengers en route to Charlie breaks a prtz.cd set of golf clubs one by one over his Arncr1ca; later they meet again In a restaurant. On these knee and utters a clear, undeleted cxplcllvel Prt.nts are spare bones, Chaplin hangs one of the most adroit and excellent, with original titles. 21 minutes. substantive comedlC!I of the silent era. 21 minutes. THE CHASES OF PIMPLE ST. * ONEA. M. (1935) $145 (1916) $145 Ah, for the Joys of havtng your sister-In-law ltvtng with you, ONE A.M. ts unique among all Chaplin's work for (other Charley might say; he can't even get In his own bathroom In than the opening scene with Albert Austin as a taxi drtverl It the morning to shave. He dresses himself, unwittingly, In Is a solo act with Charlie up against a large cast of two pairs of pants. Lcavtng for work, his wife tells him to mischievous and malevolent props, including the most "smile and the world smiles wtth you." When everyone famous wall bed In all of cinema. Jnebnates were Chaplin's laughs as he walks to work, he thinks It's because he's stage specialty, and this film culminates a decade of his smiling. That evening his wife Is mistaken for his stster-tn­ comic drunks. The Impeccable logic of Its near-plotlcssncss law and out she goes with the boss' out-of-town client! With and the amazing pantomime repay frequent Viewings and Betty Mack; directed by Chase (under his real name, Charles careful study. 18 minutes. Parrott). "Film Classics" main titles; 20 minutes.

THE PAWN SHOP CRAZY LIKE A FOX (1916) $145 (1926) $145

Charlie Is a pawnbroker's assistant who, despite amazing 1wo mtlltonatres want their respective son and daughter, dextcr1ty, Is unable to master the simplest tasks (he tests the who have never met, to marry. The son is Charley; the goldnsh with acid to sec whether the gold Is real and daughter ts Martha Sleeper. The kids do evCI)'lhtng they can performs major surgery on an alarm clock). Yet In the end to avoid the matchmaking situation, only to meet each other he va nquishes Eric to win Edna's heart and his employer's and fall In love without any "help" at all. One of the forgiveness. 1HE PAWN SHOP Is particularly notable for Its outstanding Chase two-reelers directed by Leo McCarcy, this use of props. It Is so replete with comic transformation that ftlm ts offered for the ftrat time from Blackhawk In 16mm. neither Gilbert Seldes ('The 7 Uvely Arts) nor Thcordore Huff The pl1nta have all ongtnal Pathe utles and are beautiful (Charlie Chaplin), each of whom attempted simply to except for an Intermittent white scratch printed through describe evCI)'thing that happens, was able to set down more from the onglnal camera negative in portions of the the than a fraction of Its witty business. 22 minutes. second half. Silent; 20 mlrrutes at 24 fps. 8 ------·-·-·-····-·-·------

A HASTY MARRIAGE • Buster Keaton (1931) $145 The trolley car setting of this Charley Ch ase comedy. COPS unava ilable since the 1970"s, makes lt more appealing today (1922) $145 than when flrst released. Charley has ambitions lo become a streetcar motorman but In the deprc.'\Slon days of 1931. the trolley company ts hiring only man1ed men. Gay (Lillian A nice-looking and complete print of Buster Keaton's Elliot) and Charley decide to have a "hasty marriage" despite encounter with 1.000 policemen. Silent with a pipe organ the opposttion of h er mother. Most of the a ction takes place score by Gaylord Carter. 19 minutes. around. inside and on top of the trolley car ·• with James Finlayson at the controls! 2 1 minutes . lilGH C'S • (1930) $175

HIGH C'S s tars Charley Chase as a World War I draftee who is sent to France where he meets and ts wooed by Thelma Todd. When he runs Into the Ranch Roys, H's song at first sight proving that war ... at least ln this movie ... doesn't have to be hell. 'lnis delightful film was such a success thal Roach soon followed it with a sequel fcalurcllc, Hough Seas. 26 mlnutcs. ms WOODEN WEDDING (1925) $ 145 ONE WEEK Charley Chase is perhaps the sole comic from the Twenties (1 920) $145 and Thirties who lacks the rha psodic admira l ion h e deserves. His gimmick was comedy of btg error s; his With the relea'le of ONE WEEK tn 1920. a young man named character ts combination lounge 117.ard. soda jerk. traveling Buster Keaton emerged a s one of the major comedians of the salesman. playboy. The superb series of2-rcclcrs directed by silent era. Trade papers called this short subject "the comedy Leo McCarey is h is finest silent work, and n one Is wackier or sensation of the year" and exhibitors soon combined Keaton wittier than I IIS WOODEN WEDDING. Charley is h:indcd an ,:,-ubjccls to make up an cnllrc show. anonymous note on h is wedding day. "Your bride has a wooden leg." I le mistakenly fondles a cane a nd ta kes olT in a Uusler am! Sybil Seely arc Just married, and Uncle's present frenzy for the South Seas. Aboard ship he enters wh at is ts a new, prefabricated home. Dul the.re's one little hitch •• probably the most hilarious dance contest ever staged. With the newlyweds have to assemble it themselves ! Looks easy Katherine Grant; s ilent with music added. 22 minutes . enough. but Sybil's rejec ted suitor switch es numbers on the boxes and Buster's problems begin. Come the arrival of the guests at the housewanning on Friday the 13th. and the real THE PIP FROM PITTSBURGH • fun begins! The picture quality on this print Is mediocre but (1931) $145 lhc fil m ts so Incredibly clever that we're proud lo olTer It anyway. There Is a n excellent orga n score by Gaylord Carter. 20 minutes. Having been s tung before on a blind d a te. Ch arley decides to make himself as distasteful as possible. Imagine his dismay when h e secs that his date is the beautiful Thelma Todd! lie does his best to undo everything In perh aps hts funniest sound comedy. 21 minutes . Marie Dressler PUBLIC GHOST NO. 1 • (1935) $145 DANGEROUS FEMALES Charley becomes a sales man for 1he Elite House l!aunltng (1929) $145 Corporation. His first client ts a real estate agent who sold a mansion to Clarence Wilson and who now wanls to get 11 with Ma rie Dress ler and Polly Moran: Produced by Al back for the former owner, who will d ouble the price at Christie. Hckascd by Paramount Pictures. An escaped which he sold it. 20 minutes. convict and an evangelist arc both headed toward!i town. Which one h as the widow Uascum let in? ·1nc original negative was availa ble for this edition and prints a rc WIIlSPERING WHOOPEE excellent. 2 I minutes. (1930) $145

Charley Chase hopes the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce TILLIE WAKES UP will buy some properly he h as there ·· if h e shows 1hc1r (1 917) $250 purchasing commiltcc a good time. To cinch the sale, Charley hires three. er, ladies of the evening to whoop things Mack Sennett brought Marie Uressler. a lrea dy a famous up big. !Jut instead of the original buyers, Hockaway sends s tage personality. lo the screen in 1914 to co-star with three dourpusscs. All looks bad unttl Charley breaks the Ice Charlie Chapltn In Tillie's Punctured Romance. 11LLIE with a game of post office. and the butler serves practically WAKES UP, produced by Peerless-World Pictures and pure a lcohol billed as Juice. This very funny film ends with a released In J a nuary I 917. was a n a ltogether s uccessful sclt?.cr Aght on a truly Wagnerian :wale. Featuring Anita follow-up and began a virtual "Tillie" series starring Miss Garvtn. U1clma Todd, Dell Henderson . Carl S tockd,i le: Dressler. but filmed by a variety of dilTcrent companies. A directed by James W. !fam e. 2 1 mtnules. youthful J ohnny I lines co-stars. Silent. 53 min. at 18 fps.

9 From the Hal Roach Studio • Restricted to U.S. and Canada dialogue, but since there's hardly anyone for him to talk to, al least half the film Is wordless (there Is a musical score of breezy '20's favorites like "Ain't We Got Fun" and 'What11 I All-Star Comedies Do?" checkcrboarded with stock silent picture themes). nIE BIG KICK compares favorably with the two-reel Mack Sennett comedies which made Langdon a star. Blackhawk's printing negative ls made from a nitrate fine grain and CALL OF THE CUCKOOS * quallty ts very good. 20 minutes. (1927) $145 Guest appearances by Laurel & Hardy. Charley Chase. SHRIMP• Jimmy Finlayson THE (1930) $145 Max Davison and Lillian Elllott arc Mama and Papa Glmplcwart and Spec O'Donnell Is their son -- lovc·s greatest with Thelma Todd mistake. Papa Glmplcwart wants to sell their home because a bunch of cuckoos -- Laurel and Hardy. Charley Chase and Timld Harry Is the boarder In a household full of obnoxious Jimmy Finlayson -- live next door and think they arc slcrcotypcs--a glutton, the lazy husband, the mouthy blonde, operating a school for radio announcers. Papa finally a tough guy--and they all have It In for Harry. A girl loves makes a deal, sight unseen and no questions asked, for a him, but what can she do lfhe won't stand up for htmscll? As beautiful-looking home In a lovely section of the city •• only he's ambling along In his silly sad way, a scientist singles to find It to have been a quickie and subject to falltng apart him out as the most timid man he's ever seen. He takes like a house of cards. Things climax when the rclatlvea Harry to an auditorium full of people waiting for an appear as housewarmcrs, but the final pay-off ts the happy experiment lo begin. A delightful. mad-scientist-type sits group of Stan. Ollie, Charley and Jimmy seen through the Harry down In a huge chair while assistants complete window exclaiming: 'We've moved In next doort" Made by preparations. Harry ts Injected with a scrum which gives Hal Roach In 1927, this Is a very satisfactory vintage comedy him the tough, tenacious temperament of a bulldog. He with particular appeal today because of Laurel and Hardy's springs from the chair. runs to 'the boarding house, turns It guest appearance. 20 minutes at 24 lps: silent. upside down. straightens his tormentors out. and wins the girl. A fantastic and highly entertaining transformation: sec Harry doing what you always wanted him to dol 19 minutes. 45 MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD (1926) $145

with Glenn Tryon, Rube Clifford, Sue O'Neil, Charlotte Mineau, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Stan Laurel While George M . Cohan lmmorlallzcd New Rochelle In 45 Minutes From Broadway, a famed stage play and movie of the era, Hal Roach seized the same concept for this parody. JUST RAMBLING ALONG Join the fun as three rubes visit the cinema capital and run Into a pair of crooks out lo part the country folk from their (1918) $75 bankroll. It's real life, but all so Improbable that Glenn and his family think It's actually some producer's next hit film •• This early work of Stan Laurel exhibits an unusual, and no country boy would want to be left out of that. This Is fascinating sense of timing and comedy expression, both the first Roach film In which both Oliver Hardy and Stan brought to the screen from the stage. /\s a result. JUST Laurel appeared. For many years the Blackhawk copies of RAMBLING ALONG shows a completely different style from this film lacked the scene with Stan Laurel, but this new the Stan Laurel of the twenties. edition Is fully restored. Audiences ca ptivated with the glamor of the movie capital loved this: we think you will, Stan Is In front of a beach cafeteria , obviously out of funds. too. 22 minutes at 24 fps.; silent. The management Is on to him, for when he marches Into the cafeteria with a strtng of dashing blades tralllng bathtng beauty Clarlne Seymour, he Is tossed out on his car. But outside, the teenage son of the cop on the beat has just foWld fifty cents on the walk. and while he ts displaying his loot, Stan grabs It and Is back In the cafeteria. displaying It Harry Langdon himself. Following an unsuccessful play for Clarlnc, Stan gels In line and, after sampling everything, ends up with a ten cent check. He moves to the same table as Clarine, who switches her $1.50 tab for his and leaves. Stan gets It all THE BIG KICK • over again when he attempts to pass the cashlcrl 13 minutes (1930) $145 at 18 fp.<1: silent.

Harry Langdon's 1929-1930 sertcs of two-reel comedies for Hal Roach has a terrible reputation. Some of the films may THE NOON WHISTLE deserve It, but THE BIG KICK ts very. very good. Although there Is a story ·- detective Edgar Kennedy, hot on the trail of (1923) $75 two bootleggers, eventually captures them In a shootout at the fYlS station where Harry works ·- Langdon's elf character Foreman Fin has his hands full of slackers at the furniture spends most of the fllm In his own eccentric world, factory, and who's his greatest problem? Stan, of course. A performing extended solo pantomime like a baby with an masterpiece of comic timing, 11iE NOON WHISTI.E Is one of exceptionally long attention span! Langdon works off props Stan Laurel's early comedies for Hal Roach and ·· a watcrtng can, an air compressor, a balloon , a row of demonstrates his rare ability to extract every possible laugh dummies •· and sets his own pace. The comedy makes a from a slender story. With Jimmy Finlayson and Katherine clever use of sound effects, and Harry has a few lines of Grant; silent with music added. 12 minutes.

1 0 ©@~Yr ©~©~g From Hal Roach

SHOULD TALL MEN MARRY? * under I.he seal to recover the winning ticket she tore up. (1928) $145 Patsy's big mouth gets them lnlo hot water and the fracas continues as the roadways turn Into Todd/Kelly pandemonium. For three years this snappy duo delighted The lllm's working lllle was COWBOYS CRY FOR IT, and "It" Is very ably prov1ded In the personage of altracllve Martha audiences ·• and I.hey sUU will tn this fine comedy short. 18 Sleeper. Sh e ts rancher Jimmie F'tnlayson's cute daughter minutes. who Is v1ed for by Teddy Von Eliz (the worthy good guy) and Stuart Holmes (the bad guy). Although generically a Hal Roach All-Star short (meaning a casting repository for DONE IN OIL • actors who had been stars or hopefully would be stars). It Is (1934) $ 145 actually a Stan Laurel comedy. and he receives top bllltng. Introduced by a Utle which reads. "He came from Arkansas, Thelma is an aspiring but unln.'lplrcd artist; Patsy Is her and h is name was Blll ·· so they called him Texas Tommy," complaining model whose face ls In every patnttng, whether he Is teamed wllh Finlayson as the two seek lo rescue ~·tn·,. It's a knl~hl in armor ur a bathing beauty; an

see also FRAUDS AND FRENZIES The next-to-last short of the famous Todd/Kelly series. TOP FLAT ranks as one of their best. The girls arc roommates, and Thelma Is Irked because Patsy doesn't appreciate h er modem poetry. Thelma stomps out declaring Patsy will ZaSu Pitts - Thelma Todd soon fmd her living In a Park Avenue penthouse writing best S<:llers. Patsy later secs Thelma arrive at a posh s tore in a limousine. She's only the maid to a wealthy couple, but ON THE LOOSE Patsy assumes otherwise and Thelma doesn't deny 11. Unttl (1 93 1) $145 the owners return. Patsy a nd friends (Fuzzy Knight and Garry Owen) drive Thelma crazy In this great comedy of The fi fth of s ixteen shorts this ddightful comedy team made errors. 18 minulcs. Logel.her, ON 111E LOOSE ranks as one of I.heir funniest. and the concluding cameo by Laurel and Hardy ts the frosting on the cake. Snub Pollard '!nclma and ZaSu arc two working girls looking for a good time on the week-encl. Unfortunately, every pair of m en they meet ln,.isl on taking them to Con ey Island for a good FRESH PAINT time. Coney Island Is fun now and then. but not as often as (1920) $75 the gtrls have seen il. Th etr wal1!1 arc lined with ridiculous prizes, all the carnies know them and they can win any game Ila! Roach's Rolin Company W-ds the prov1ng ground for hts handily . Two Briltshcrs take them out. promising that this style of comedy. Hapld pace, s ight gags, nonsensical will be a date that Is different and e:ccltlng. The gtrls wear happenings concocted extemporaneously by director a nd elegant evening gowns. but a las Coney J,i]and again. cast. and any opportunity to reveal a sh apely leg. arm or Beautiful and vivacious Thelma and the goofy mouthed back captured early movie-goers and guaranteed the success ZaSu go through the park and the various amusements wtlh of his one-reelers. Snub Pollard stars as Chief Telegraph htlruious sarcasm and s lap,~ttck. The next week-end they ell Boy tn this 1920 short and pedals his b icycle through a a t h ome relieved. tired and determined never to go to Coney downtown Los Angeles that ls no more. During a delivery. he Is land again when who should knock on the door but two secs an artist surroumkcl by beautiful ladles and decides to dumb Innocents In derbies who have come to show the gtrls a trade his Western Union cap for an artist's beret. llis good ti me a l ... where else? Coney Island! 18 mtnu!c..'J. ,tubjcct's jealous husb and gives him a thorough s h ellacking, and Pollard finds little pleasure in his newfound paradise. (Silent with music added) 11 minutes. Thelma Todd - Patsy Kelly IT'S A GIFT BEAUTY AND THE BUS • (1923) $75 (1 933) $145 In Inventor Snub 's bedroom. strings. levers and pulleys make everything automatic, from his fool- tickling alarm In the I 930s I !al Hoach Studios tried, with a great measure of clock to hts hrcakfasl-maktng mechanism . On the rare success. lo create a female comedy duo with the impact of occasions S nub leaves his bed, It folds Into the wall. Laurel and Hardy. They enlisted a,i personages beautiful and revealing a fireplace complete wtth flrc. When oil magnates refined Thelma Todd and scatterbrained Zasu Pitts. The want Snub to demonstrate his "fire-proof and absolutely contrast provided enjoyable chemistry as Thelma usually non-explosive" gasoline. he hops tnto his magnetic vehicle bailed the two out of predicaments ofZasu·s maktng. In 1933 and hooks on behind unsuspecting motorists. Along the way Pills left Roach Studios. and her replacement was spunky he offers his waterproof shoe to help save a drowning man, Patsy Kelly, who came from a successful Broadway stint. but a las tr,. one Invention he has n't quite perfected. And his The first two-reel Todd/Kelly was BEAUTY AND 111~ BUS gasoline formula proves to be Just a little too powerful, too. with Ch arlie lla ll , 'llny Sandford, Don Barclay and Tommy A music score ha" been added to this exceptionally willy Bond. The gtrls win a car al a movie raffic a fler Patsy crawls comedy from I.he silent years. 12 minutes at 24 fps. 1 1 Will Rogers AMOVIESTAR (1916) $145 BIG MOMENTS FROM LITI'LE with Mack Swain, Louella Maxam, May Wells, Phyllis Allen, PICTURES (1924) $145 Harry McCoy It's the idea of the ccntwy -- save lime watching long feature ''It was Sennett's conviction that all comedy ts based on films by getting to the heart of the matter Immediately. With tragedy. First you must have dramatic, tragic story, then It WIil Rogers as your ropc-twtrllng, gum-ehcwtng, on-stage must be transmuted tnto comedy." guide through a lively collection of skits on the careers of -- Gene Fowler (1931) Valentino, Fairbanks, and the Keystone Comedies in this ''In 1916 the Western film was In Its heyday and BOI Hart the hilarious parody of mavledom, both In front of and behind hero of countless thousands. Since nothtng was sacred to the cameras. Disposing of Valentino (In BLOOD AND SAND) Mack Sennett and his studio-full of Irreverent comedians, a and Doug Falri>anks (In ROBIN HOOD) With a few quick jabs skit on the Western fl.Im was hardly to be resisted ... Mack of his rapier-like wtt, there's then a fast takeoff on the Fox Swain, who docs a delicious bit of work as the hero, was an wccplc OVER 1lIE HILL -- but WIil Rogers has singled out eminent member of the.Keystone comedians and afterward Roach's arch rival Mack Sennett for In-depth treatment, played With Chaplin In The Gold Rush and other films." resulting In the best Imitation of the Keystone Cops ever put -- Etlcco Bowser (1968) on fllm. Rogers ts In costume as Ford Sterling, and Produced at the peak of1\1anglc's attempt to elevate movies diminutive Roach charactor actor Charlie Hall deftly essays Charlie Chaplin, with everyone burlesquing the Sennett to the status of stage attractions, this VCJY clever film ts at anllcs and camera tricks that had established the Keystone once a burlesque of the Ince-produced Broncho brand two­ Cops and Ben Turpin ct al, as screen comedy Institutions. reelers of earlier years, of the nickelodeon theaters which were quickly vanishing tnto fl.Im history, of the parvenu BIG MOMEITTS FROM LITTI.E PICTIJRES received lavish movie actor who Invented past theatrical accomplishments, praise from exhibitors as a real moneymaker. It Is as surely and of the film spectator who uses the screen as escape from today a "must sec" for film buffs, and anyone who enjoys his miserable dailiness. But the self-referential complexity Valentino, Fairbanks, Sennett's s table of Keystone comics, of this film calls forth memories of Buster Keaton tn or particularly America's pre-eminent humorist, the Sherlock, Jr.I 25 minutes; silent. comedy conscience of the nation, Will Rogers. Organ score by Gaylord Carter. 21 minutes. TEDDY AT THE THROTI'LE (1916) $145 with Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Bobby Vernon and From the Teddy the Keystone Dog; directed by Clarcncc Badger One of the great Sennett comedies of the period -- elaborately Mack Sennett Studio produced and with many of the situations that made Sennett famous. The heroine ts chained lo the railroad track and BARNEY OIDFIELD'S RACE FOR A rescued by her hero tn the nick of time. Chases In automobiles -- close calls with speeding trains! Excellent I.JFE (1913) $100 prtnts from a nltratc original. 27 minutes with music track Staning Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand at 18 fps. This fast-moving film's storyline has assumed legendary proportions In the annals of screen comedy. Spoofed countless times over the years. BARNEY OIDFIEID'S RACE FOR A LIFE Is Mack Sennett's "original" burlesque on Roscoe Arbuckle Victorian high melodrama, fea turing a lovely young girl (Mabel Normand) kidnapped and menaced by a truly dastardly villain (Ford Sterling) who lies her to the railroad FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT tracks b efore he's foiled by the girl's not- loo-bright (1916) $210 boyfriend (Mack Sennett). The thrilling chase Involves a starring Fatly Arbuckle and Mabel Normand Santa Fe ten-wheeler No. 492 train and, of course. Barney Oldfield, the world's "fastest man on wheels." Strctch­ Fatty, Mabel and Al St. John form an unlikely love trtanglc prtntcd for projection at 24 f.p.s., with a rous ing organ score In this wonderful comedy, one of Mack Sennett's bcsL Teddy by John Muri. 16 minutes. the dog, and characters I. Landem, the real estate salesman, and Brutus Bombastic with his gang of two contribute to the fun, which Includes a classlc Keystone chase. Restored with A CLEVER DUMMY original color tints and nickelodeon piano score for sound projection at 18 f.p.s. 37 minutes. (1917) $145 Starring Ben Turpin with Juanita Hansen, Wallace Beery and Chesler Conklin FATTrS TIN-TYPE TANGLE Cross-eyed Ben Turpin, a recent acquisition from Vogue, (1915) $145 began his Sennett career by playing the lower budget An outstanding example of Roscoe Arbucklc's work as Keystones, not supervised by Sennett. Mack's studio writer, director and star for Mack Sennett, this film Includes manager urged Sennett to watch a clever single reel a young Edgar Kennedy In a supporting role, generous views ''Keystone" featuring Turpin. Sennett was overwhelmed with of the studio environs, and a full-scale chase by the Keystone la ughter and ordered additional shots made, bringing the Cop11. Fatty aocs to the park to escape his terrorlZlng comedy up to two-reel length. Thus In A CLEVER DUMMY, mother-In-Jaw, ts photographed In an Innocent but complete with Turpin's hilarious Impersonation of an apparently compromising situation with Edgiu-'s Wife, and automaton, he came Into the big leagues. 26 minutes at 18 the rest ts non-stop action! The dexterous Arbuckle flips fps; silent. pancakes behind his back and, tn many other delicious bits of business, demonstrates the artlslJY that Instructed and Inspired Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, both of whom THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER Fatty trained. Blackhawk added a pipe organ score which we (1933) $145 don't recommend but we retain It for those who think any "'Taint a fit nlght out for man nor beast ..." W. C. Fields In a music ts better than none. Prints have all original Keystone send-up ofYukon melodramas. 18 minutes. titles and arc good quality. 33 minutes at 18 fps. 1 2 THE KNOCKOUT (1 91 4) $145 Flora and a group of her friends band together to stage a raid, It's the fight of the century -- Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) vs. rent police uniforms. and move In. When the "policemen" Cyclone F1ynn (Edgar Kennedy). How did Fatty get Into this place the poker-playing males on probation lo their wives, It mess? Simple -- he's practiced punching Al St. John for so looks like the gals have won at last -- or have they? 1 7 long he canl lose. 1ne money's on our local boy even though minutes al 18 fps: silent. the odds and Referee Charlie are with Cyclone. While Fatty wins with the help of Mack Swain's six-shooters. the two­ man bout becomes a classic Keystone chase. complete with FRAUDS AND FRENZIES those knockabout clowns of the cinema, the Keystone Cops. This silent comedy Is excerpted In the current Cinema (1918) $145 Parodi.so and Is a very presentable print copied from a 35mm fine grain master. 30 minutes at 18 fps; silent. "tarrtng Larry Semon with St.an Laurel Made al Lhe height of Larry Scmon's career as a comedy star and producer for the pioneer Vltagraph comedy, FRAUDS "MISS" F ATTY'S SEASIDE AND FRENZIES Is particular ly notable because Stan Laurel WVERS co-stars. The two play convicts trying lo evade work and plot (1 9 15) $75 escape. When they do finally escape, they become Involved with a pretty girl -- only to discover she ts the warden's In "MISS" FATTY'S SEASIDE LOVERS. the mtund but daughler1 NI too o,oon, they arc back In jail again. balletic Roscoe Arbuckle was cast as the buxom daughter of the "m oth ball magnate," summering al The IJreakcrs, a Semon oflcn said that "a comedian 1s only as good as his fashionable resort hotel al the seaside. This gave the agile gags" and even though he quickly became jealous of Laurel Mr. Arbuckle the op portunity lo do a most effective female and stopped working wilh him, Stan carried Scmon's lmpcrson alton •• and to bring off a considerably more rough frenetic gag style Into many of his own early productions for and tumble result on the beach than could have been Roach. Although Semon produced, directed and starred in achieved with any of the several Amazons then In the more than one hundred comedy shorts, they are rare today. Keystone stock company. In addition to starring In th is one This choice example was converted by Dlackhawk In I 972 reeler. Fatty was also Its director. Be sure to watch for from a fine nitrate original. so print quality is excellent. 26 Harold Lloyd as an extra! 15 minutes al 18 fps: silent. mtnules al 18 fps: silent.

THE ROUNDERS THE PROFESSIONAL PATIENT (1 9 14) $75 (1917) $75 Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin. C harley Chase, Minta Durfee, Phyllis Allen, Al St. John starring Mr. and Mrs. S idney Drew

Charlle and neighbor Fatty arrive home tipsy and arc met by A Vitagraph produclton starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew their Irate wives. Such a loud fuss en.sues across the hall that and directed by Sidney Drew, this one-reel situation comedy Charlie's wife sends him to stop the may hem. Soon Is still enjoyable today because of its charming players. LaJd everyone Is Involved In the fracas, and while the wtves swing off his job. Drew becomes a sht11 for a "painless dentist." His a t each other. the boys slip away. Outstanding ensemble job: to smile winningly and assure nervous prospects that playing by Chaplin and Arbuckle: very good print quality. "It didn 't hurt at all." Mrs. Drew. a lovely new patient with "a One o f the most enjoyable Keystones. 13 minutes at 18 fps; very sweet tooth" catches his eye: they meet again at Mrs. silent. Van Schuyligh t'" party where Drew's former employer hires him back a t an lncr<:ascd salary. In the happy epilogue, See also The Chaplin Keystones. their first child loses a baby tooth but assures the Drews that "ll didn't hurt at all." Released by Dlac khawk for the first time In 16mm. 13 minutes at 18 fps; silent. From the THE SHOW Vitagraph Studio (1922) $145

Larry Semon was recognlu:d as one of the greatest gagmcn A CURE FOR POKERITIS and physical comedians of all time. This zany movie shows 19 12 $75 why. Larry plays a property man who bounces from one pratfall to the next backstage al a variety show. On stage, a John Bunny's face and girth were the key to his success. At magician gets revenge on a skeptic by conjuring a rooster Vltagraph. from his first appearance In 1910 until his that spits in the skeptic's eye. While clearing his eye, a passing In 191 5, he appeared In scores of one and two-reel woman sits down In front of him wearing a chicken h at, comedies. And, almost always, Flora Finch was cast os his which the skeptic promptly tries lo k111. Larry, wildly shrewish wife. Yet, few of Bunny's films ex1sl because of swinging a broom. chases the rooster who drinks some Vttagraph's policy. at that time, of destroying the negatives nltroglyc-cr1n and spits il ;it Larry. Explosive sequences of Its production s once they hacl played out an general follow. In the c haos. the leading lady is robbed, and one of release. A vintage 35mm poslllvc In the hands o f an Scmon's famous chases begins. Neither the budget nor the In dividual co llector m a de p ossible Ulackhawk's stuntmen arc spared ns I~ pursues the cops who chase the rcproduclton of A CURE FOR POKE1m1S In a qunlity so fine crooks. Trains. cars and houses are demolished In the tha t much of It looks as though the original negative was acllon that follow,.. The gags arc constant, well-paced an

In this appealing comedy, Dunny plays the husband addicted Semon rivalled Keaton, Lloyd a nd Chaplin In popularity to p laying poker a t the club -- and usually losing. He during his outstanding Vllagraph work In the early twenties. promises wife Flora that he'll give It up (with mental fingers Because relatively little of this material survives. we arc crossed). but In no time at all he's conspiring with a fe llow elated to offer you a chance to sec this legendary silent poker-player to get out of the house for the next game. Uu l clown. 26 minutes, with added music score al 18 fps. 1 3 ©©~W ~©§~ More from the Golden Years

A NATURAL-BORN GAMBLER (1916) $95 Bert Wilhams, who began with Lc:w Dockstadter's Minstrels In 1888 and by 1915 was headlining the Ziegfeld Follies, ts the star of this fthn, which Is one of the first ever made with a Black man In the lead. But Williams, who was light-skinned, nevertheless dons burnt cork for this comedy set around gitmlng tables--an environment which affords the star opportunity to "palm" cards with his toes, play a pantomime game of poker, and otherwise display extraordinary moments from his famous stage routines. The sound track contains a nickelodeon piano score and Interesting ba.ckground lnfonnatlon about WIUlams, but the action moves very fast at 24 f.p.s. so we prefer silent speed projection with the sound off. Picture quality on this Biograph production Is very good. I 4 minutes at 24 f.p.s.; 19 minutes at 18 f.p.s.

THE STOLEN JOOLS (1931) $145 A legendary, star-studded fund-raising film (for National Variety Artists relic0 tn which Norma Shearer's stolen jewels become the object of a massive search by 28 top Hollywood stars of the period, including Wallace Beery. Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy. and Edward G. Robinson. Production was financed by Chesterfield cigarettes but their commercial has been removed from this edltlon. 20 minutes.

Beginnings

1893-1903--WESTERN TRAINS OF LONGAGO 1902--A TRIP TO THE MOON $100 (compiled in 1958) $75 Georges Mcltes most famous production ts offered here In a good prtnt which ts strctch-prtnted for smooth projection at This compilation of railroad views taken between 1893 and 24 fps. with a piano track edited from recordings of 19th­ 1903 was made in 1958 when Blackhawk rephotographed century piano rolls. As ts apparently the case with all cvtdcntlary paper positives from the Library of Congress. surviving prtnts, the final tableau 19 missing but the existing The results are remarkably good considcnng the age of the end brings thing!! to a graceful conclusion. 13 minutes. material. You'll see the Northern Pacific Overland Express at Helena, Montana, 1900; the Union Pacific Overland Limited, 1902; Santa Fe California Limited, 1898; Southern 1903 --THE GREAT TRAIN Pacific Overland Mail, 1893; Southern Pacific Sunset Limited, 1898; and exceptionally good coverage of the ROBBERY $85 Georgetown Loop on the Colorado Central Railroad, 1903. The 1893 shot ts reproduced from a copynght prtnt of 1897 Edwin S. Porter's nickelodeon milestone ts offered here In a but the Southern Pactflc has established the earlier date for print of beautiful quality, copied In color from a hand­ photography, making this scene one of the oldest survMng painted nitrate orlglnal. (Approximately one-third of the motion pictures. (No Estar prtnts available due to special film was so colored). The excellent theater organ track by laboratory requirements.) 13 minutes at 18 fps. Gaylord Carter Is recorded for projection at 18 fps. 14 minutes. 1896 -- LUMIERE'S FIRST PICTURE SHOW 1903-1904 --MELIES TALES OF (compiled in 1974) $100 TERROR $75

Actual views of the Lumlcrc apparatus precede this 1903 and 1904 were peak years for film fantasist Georges compilation of films photographed In Fra.nce by Louts Meltes, and In 1959, Blackhawk restored much of his work Lumtcre, Including both familiar and rare subjects. all In from this pcrtod by rephotographing the cvtdentlary paper excellent prints. A piano score Is recorded for s ound positives which Mellcs had deposited for copyrlght in the projection at silent speed of 18 fps. 18 minutes. Library of Congress. On this reel: 1HE MELOMANlAC, made with sevenfold multiple exposure, turns a scrlcs of disembodied heads Into notes of "God Save the King'' whleh, 1896-1907--AN EDISON ALBUM $75 after the tune, tum Into doves and fly away; 1HE MONSIER, In which a dervish transforms the skeleton of a deceased This outstanding collcctlon contains prize examples of princess Into a wildly dancing spectre, then to a beautiful Edison's early production activity, Including: TIIE KISS woman, only lo tum her to a skeleton again In the arms of (1896) with May Irwin and John C. Rice; 1HE OLD MAID IN her beloved husband; and TIIE TERRJBLE TIJRKlSH 1HE DRAWING ROOM (1900) with Gilbert Sarony; SI'REET EXECUTIONER, a "grlsly little farce" In which four CAR CHIVALRY (1901), one of the first examples of screen prlsoncrs, decapitated on camera, reconstitute themselves narrative; ROMANCE OF 1HE RAILS (1902), Edwin S. and take revenge upon the headsman. Mcltes' catalogue Porter's film made for the Delaware, Lackawanna and assures us that "there ts nothing gruesome about this scene, Western Railroad -- the first advertising motion picture; tcrrtblc as It may sccm. It ls simply ludicrous throughout:· RESCUED FROM AN EAGLE'S NEST (1907) featuring D. W. (Due to special printing requirements, only acetate copies Grlffith In excerpts from the film that launched him. 11 are available; no Estar prints can be supplied.) Silent. 11 minutes at 18 f.p.s. minutes at 18 f.p.s.

1 4 Nickelodeon Era

REMEMBER, THERE ARE LADIES PRESENT $65

This stlenl color film cons is ts entirely of ha nd-painted PARIS-NEW-YORK nickelodeon sltdcs presented in slide show fashion. Three dozx:n beautifully destgncd messages arc organized so the reel CINEMA MAGIC OF GEORGES bcgtns with "welcome" and ends with "good n tghU" The film may be used in Its entirety , but as the screen goes black for a MELIES frame or two between each slide, the Images may also be cul (compiled In 1978, color) $295 apati and used as desired lo punctuate a show. First time released In 16mml 4 minutes. French film-maker Georges Melies was one of film's greatest pioneers. This documentary by Patrick Montgomery uses firs t-person narration lo trace Me ltes· career as conjurer and film producer. director. and designer from the la te 19 th century through his petiod of world fame to old-age Biograph Films obscurity. The rare film excerpts arc of excelle n t quality; by arrangement with the Melies family. the fi lm abo utilizes Directed by D. W. Griffith personal photographs, models, drawings, and o ther seldom­ seen evidence of Mclies' versatility and Imagination. ·n-.e '1lt.twu11 1908 a,ul 1913, airu.tor 'D. 'W. (jriffiil< fiamrnur.,{ out rruuft of 0 film concludes with a lengthy excerpt from a beautiful. wfuu Wt. vt come to ""1 tfu art of film i11 ntarflj ft11t fwrufrui oru a,u{ hand-colored copy of TI-IE IMPOSS IRLE VOYAGE. 28 two-rul wmufits, aratM.S, rrufoaramas, a,ul costurru picturu f or tfu minutes. pumur 'BU1flrapfi Comp/J"'j- '}.{on tlian ont fw.,u{rof of thLSt fiI,,u qf.Jt in tfu 'Bla£(.f,awk_ Collution; from timt to ti,,u, Wt wiU f taturt rrla,i11dy littU·QIOfl/JI titfts along with ot.furs Cong farrwu.s . 1903-1905 -- FOLLIES, FOIBLES AND FASIDONS $75 THE BATTLE AT ELDERBUSH

An extremely interesttng film hides behind this GULCH 0913) $145 unpromis ing ltllcl It is a compilallon of "Teasers" -- ris que or embarasstng scenes which were carried over to vaudeville One of D. W. Griffith's final fil ms for the pioneer Biograph h ouses from the peep-show Mutoscopcs of penny arcades, company, this spectacular two-reel western ts In many ways and were supposed to spice up f11m programs then commonly a "trial balloon" for 7he lJirth of A Nation. Lillian Gish, Mac made up of news items, travel views. song s lides and the like. Marsh, Robert I larron an

Directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company during April. 1913, DEATI-l'S MARATIION, based on a n original 1905 -- PARIS TO MONTE CARLO story by W. C. Wing. was sh ot by G. W. "Billy"' Btt7.cr and (NEW EDITION) $85 released on June 14. 191 3. Working together In the fina l months o f Griffith's Biograph c areer. the cast includes Henry Walthall, Blanche Sweet, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Created by Georges Mclics for a 1904 revue at the Folies­ Miller, Kate Bruce and Bobby Ilarron. A critic tn Mouing Dergere a nd first offered for sale the following year, this Picture World said DEATil'S MARA·n1ON "'will Interest all elaborate satire on the Ktng of 13clgium's addiction to fast the way, and will do so solely o n account of Its treatment. cars ts described by his torian John Hammond as among "Mel1es· m ost majestic productions, on a spectacu lar scale." This Is s ktllful, arllstic .... Charming backgrounds, well p h otographed. A strong climax--with a n ortho1ch pcrform>1nce. he concocts a soft drink conta ining cocatncl Dopocoke, as it based upon text s u ppltcd by the filmmaker (who spoke Is called, addicts a n entire populalton -· most notably the young man 1l was to have en riched, and the doctor lives to excellent English and wrote it htm"cl0. With each copy of the film sold, we will provide a free copy of the script sec Lhc ravages which he has wrought. Only a few years (adapted for projection at 18 fps; Meltes· recommended before thts film was made, cocaine w a s a mong the running speed was 13 1 /2 fps) so you can re-create an mgrcdients in the formula for Coca-Cola, on e of many original performance. A treasurcl Part color. stlcnt, I I abuses lca

1 5 THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG 'What A Pure Woman's Love Can Do." ta a slum melodrama ALLEY (1912) $85 tn which Mike, a gang leader played by Wilfred Lucas. is about to rob a btll collector when he discovers that the A social drama of the slums of New York, with rivalry collector is the father of a girl (pie~ by Blanche Sweet) to between street gangs over a girl (Lillian Gish), masterfully whom his Is greatly attracted. But there is much cross­ directed by D. W. Griffith and photographed with striking cutting and genera) excitement. and It ts the way tn which compositions of documentary-like appearance. With Walter Griffith achieved this, rather than the plot, which makes Miller. Elmer Booth, Harry Carey, Robert Harron, Lionel this film one of the clearest and most Informative texts on Barrymore and Jack Pickford. "In this film, the suppoacd principles of editing. We think anyone tnterested ln film primacy of narrative and editing Is displaced by an history or techniques will wish to show and study tht.s film Increased concern for Issues of filmlc space. as much within many times, both for what can be learned about Griffith and the Individual shot as between shots." (Cinema Journal. for what can be applied to modem problems of editing and Sping 1989) 18 minutes with added music at 18 fps. directing movies. The prints arc beautiful quality. 31 minutes at 18 fps; sllcnL

THE NEW YORK HAT See also H011l£ SWEET HO.HE, INTOLERANCE and (1912) JUDITH or BETHVUA. Other Btographs may be $75 special ordered; please tnqutre. Mary Pickford portrays a small-town girl who receives a new h at as a glfi, starting fw1ous gossip and puritanical reprisal among the churchly population. Notable for Its outstanding cast (Lionel Barrymore, LIilian and Dorothy Films from Pathe Freres Gish, Charles Mailes. Jack Pickford, Robert Harron and Mae Marsh) and for Its script by sllrteen-~ar-old Anita Loos, the film Is also a successful Griffith experiment in the THE ENCHANTED STUDIO $165 highly-charged use bf props (the hat, a mirror) and haa reverberations In his later work lncludlng BROKEN A compilation of short films from Pathe Frcrcs, the world's BLOSSOMS and WAY DOWN EAST. 16 minutes at 18 fps; largest film producer tn the early years of thts century. This silent. collection from 1907-1908 was selected and annotated by film historian Anthony Slide and Is enttrcly reproduced from original 35mm nitrate prints. The group Includes 1HE THOSE AWFUL HATS POLICEMAN'S LITILE RUN, a Paris "ch88C" film; 1HE DOG (1909) $25 ANO HIS VARIOUS MERITS which shows man's best friend at work; A DIABOLICAL ITCHING which Is a situation In 1909, when this film was made, ladles wore enormous comedy beginning with Itching powder and ending In hats decorated with fruit, flowers, and peacock feathers ·· absurdity; and RED SPECTRE, a brilliantly hand-colored formidable obstruction s for nickelodeon patrons. lHOSE trick film by Ferdinand Zecca which at once displays naive charm and confounding sophlstlcaUon. Part color with a AWFUL HATS. probably D. W. Griffith's shortest fllm. was made as a humorous substitute for the usual slide asking musical soundtrack tntended for reproduction at 18 f.p.s. 32 minutes. ladles to doff their ha ts. It also offers Btograph's own solution to the problem: a large tong descends from the ceiling to grab and cany aloft the moat grotesque hat. The film Is still a delightful curtain-raiser and ts especially MORE FROM THE ENCHANTED interesting for Its nickelodeon set and Its trick photography (a movie plays within the movie: the two Images were STUDIO $165 photographed separately, and the final effect waa achieved by doublc-prtnttng each positive. using a traveling matte). A second and equally engaging collection of shorts from Appeartng In the film arc Mack Sennett, F1ora Flnch, Unda Pathe Frcres, during the years they W'Cl"C the largest and most Arvidson (Mrs. D. W. Griffith). John Compeon, Florence advanced film producer ln the world. There arc four short Lawrence, Arthur Johnson. and Robert Harron. The comedies: The Yawner, Poor Coat. W!ffles Wtns a Beauty nickelodeon piano on the sound track ts recorded for Prfze, and I Fetch the Bread. The last named ts one of our projection at silent speed. 3 minutes. favorite of all "primitive" films, when two men acnt by their wives lo the bakers grow progressively drunker. and funnier, on their way home. The compllatton climaxes with Down tn the Deep, a brilliantly hand-colored trick film fantasy by THE TRANSFORMATION OF Fenltnand Z.ecca and an out.standing example of this genre at MIKE (1912) $145 which Pathe excelled. Part color, 27 minutes with music track at 18 fps. A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION OF D. W. GRIFFITH'S EDITING 1ECHNIQUE with Blanche Sweet and Wilfred Lucas A MAX LINDER DUO (1908-10) $75 Between July of 1908 when D. W. Griffith directed his first film. The Aduenlures qf Dollie, and December 1911 when he Max Linder was known as "the man of a million laughs." and made number 353, TI-IE: TRANSFORMATION OF MIKE. he mllllons and mllllons of people around the world flocked to learned not merely to reproduce a s tory. but to tell one using his pantomime Blm aaUrcs. Wherever In the world he went, the medium of film. Griffith pioneered In the development he was mobbed. In Berlin ln 1910, the Kaiser came to sec hts of scrccn content, film acting, and pictorial effects; but the stage show and then came backstage to pay him basis of film editing was perhaps the most significant compliments. In 1913. In Russia, the C:mr received him at discovery he made In his work al Biograph. This film court. Little plaster statues of the comedian were sold provides an extraordinary demonstration of Griffith's throughout Europe. Hl.s work was an Immense and spcctftc realization that the shot. rather than the scene. was the tnspl.ratton to Chaplin. These two short films. MAX basts of film narrative. CEUBATAIRE ("Troubles of a Grasswtdower") and LOVE AND CHEESE. arc not only outstanding comedies. but also Our release first shows the 114 un-cdlted shots. grouped as arc very good prints, carefully converted from 0rst­ photographed; followed by the same material assembled gencratton 35mm and 28mm poslttvcs. 14 minutes al 18 fps. according to Griffith's Instructions. The story, subtitled sllent. 16 From Thomas H. Ince Studio BUFFAW BILL'S WILD WEST SHOW $145 IN THE TENNESSEE HILLS (1915) $145 The first portion of this film Is devoted to the showing of Wild West Show parades. the first photographed by Edison cameramen In 1898, the second by a Biograph cameraman This Impressive Thomas H. Ince melodrama stars Charles In 1902. Following this and lllmed In 1905 Is the action for Ray as a son whose ailing mother Is evicted from her home which the Wild West Show was famous -- Indians, scouts, by miserly John Calhoun while he's out trytng to borrow cavalrymen, fast rtdlng and re-enactments of typical rent money from the neighbors. He returns to ftnd her dead frontier events. 22 minutes at 18 fps; s ilent. and swears vengeance on the landlord. An attempted ambush fails, but ends tn a struggle which kills Calhoun and trlggers a manhunt by Calhoun's men for Jim (Ray). They find the young mountaineer and arrange a hanging by the THE LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL setting sun. A race against Ume Is aided by a quirk of nature (1912) $145 In this unusual story of mountain justice. 28 minutes at 18 fps. Here Is an authentic early film of the West tn frontier days !limed by the Buffalo Dtll and Pawnee Bill Film Co. ·· and featuring Colonel William F. Cody, himself. In the prologue A TOUR OF THE THOMAS H. and epilogue! Produced In 1912, this also represents a very early example of an "independent" production. and one of INCE STUDIOS, 1920-22 $145 the first serious American film attempts at a biographical film. It Is or further Importance because the principal of the Thomas H. Ince built the studio shown tn this fllm In 19 I 9; biography himself appears In the film. The subject recounts he produced there until his death In 1924. Subsequently It three episodes In Buffalo Dill's recollections of hls was home to Cecil B. DeMille (for KING OF KINGS). David 0. experiences on the frontier: The Santa Fe Trail; his duel Selznick (for GONE wmI 1HE WIND. REBECCA and others). with the Indian warrior, Yellow Ha nd; and as a scout for RKO (for CITIZEN KANE); and It Is sttll In use today. with Custer. It Is a genuine collectors' lteml 28 minutes at 18 fps; E.T. and RAGING BULL among relatively recent productions silent. on this venerable lot. This Is an amazingly detailed record of early silent production on lnce's glass stages and around the studio Jot and streets of Culver City, Including n ot only glimpses of pictures tn production but also scenes In the laboratory, editing and projection rooms. The Blackhawk Silent Feature Films negative was m ade from an original nitra te print and quality Is excellent. 31 minutes at 18 f.p.s . 1913 --JUDITH OF BETHULIA $275 From Ambrosio Fi.lm, Turin, Italy Dfreclcd by D. W. Grtffith: with Ulanchc Sweet, Henry D. Wa llhall. Mac Marsh, Hobert llarron a nd Lillian Gish. NERO, OR THE BURNING OF JUDITH OF BETIIULIA was Griffith's first fealurc-length production. filmed In the summer of 191 3 at a reported ROME (1909) $85 budget of $18,000. It ended up costing $36,000 -· almost more than the directors of Biograph could endure. Griffith wanted Arturo Ambrosio, who produced thi,i fllm. establish ed to produce long lllms; Biograph wanted to stick with one and Italy's first motion picture studio at Torino in 1904. two-reeler,i whic h could be produced at modest budgets. Ambrosio regarded motion pictures as a serious art rather Legend has It that JUDITH OF BETI-IULlA was relcascd a reel than a novelty and declared his a im was "to produce the at a time. as a serial. to conform to Blograph's pattern of most Impressive, most realistic, and technically perfect short fllms. This may well have been the case In certain pictures within the bounds of human Ingenuity and genius." territories served by General F1lm Company exchanges, but When NERO. his most famous fllm, first appeared. It was records do Indicate that Judith was basically distributed as hailed as "the most marvellous picture In the world." Wtth the four reel feature which Gr1ffith Intended. This blbltcal enormous advance publicity, 342 prints were made for spectacle was a forerunner of Intolerance which Griffith was simultaneous release In Europe and America. Sixteen-page to make only three year.:, later. It Is reproduced from a 28mm souvenir programs were distributed at the showings, and In print In Its or1glnal version. with a musical score by Gaylord the wake of lt.s success followed scores of grandiose Italia n Carter recorded at 18 f.p.s. 58 minutes. historical pictures which left their mark on the work of Griffith and De Mille. 'These spectacles were Impressive ," wrote two French historians who remembered them a 1913 -· INGEBORG HOLM $300 generation la ter. "Portly operatic tenors tn togas, stout matrons wavtng olive branches or giving the Roman salute, "I found myself electrified by a fllm which still had the little lcglonar1es running at a trot, howling mobs raising or ability. after seventy years. to bring tears to the eyes." So lowering their thumbs provided the constant Ingredients. wrote Kevin Brownlow after screenlng INGEBORG HOLM. Homan orgies, a positive rain of blossoms, and the games made In Sweden by Victor Sjostrom (Seastrom) In I 913. and were but a prelude to the Inevitable splendors of the finale In one of the first feature films. Dased upon the case hlsto,y of which a whole cardboard city blazed merrily under the calm a poor woman whose children are taken from her and who Is gaze of a paunchy a nd bemonoclcd emperor as dlgnllled as a sent to the workhouse. lt Is a tragedy without vtllalns; to bishop." In the case of the blaze for which Nero Is famous quote an original review, "the story is simple. direc t. a lmost (both on and off the screen). the original film was tinted red. pitilessly realis tic In It s lrcatmcnt, well constructed and Moving Pt'.cture World descnbcd It as possessing "such a admirable In Its stagecraft. containing very many beautiful marvelous realism of effect that as we sat and watched the and colored part of the fllm. we seemed. as It were, to hear the effects of light s had e deeply tinged with the gloom which Is so characteristic of northern a rt." To again quote crtes of the victims." Inspired by this enthustasm, our tinted Brownlow: "I have seen very little to compare with section has been reproduced on color stock In Blackhawk's excellent quality. 16 minutes at 18 fps.; silent. INGEBORG HOLM. It has an Intelligence and a compassion that makes It, for me. a film I can look al again and again. And that ls the sure sign of a masterpiece." Prints arc See also Mack Sennett Studio and extremely good, with bilingual (Swedlsh-Engllsh) Vltagraph Studio comedies. lntertltles. 65 minutes at 18 fps: stlenl. 1 7 1913--TRAFFIC IN SOULS $325 1917--POOR UTTLE RICH GIRL This famous film, one of cinema's first features and a $375 phenomenally successful one, exploits the then­ For the first time, Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart," controversial Issue of White Slaveiy by showtng how naive played a child for the entire length of a feature film. The girls were shanghaied into pl"05titution and how the profits action takes place around the eleventh birthday of a little of the vice traffic were divided among members of the rtng, girl who Is so sheltered from the world by her over-protective their go-betweens, and the "man higher up." Written and parents that she Is unfamiliar with conversational speech. directed by George Loane Tucker, the film displays a high "... The casual metaphors she overhears become level of dnemaUc know-how for Its time, and ts of course a frighteningly real In a dream sequence. She has heard the fascinating soc1al document. For many years It was one of butler called a silly ass and the governess a snake In the the most aought-aftcr "lost" films In the world; Blackhawk grass, the nurse described as two-faced, the footman as located an amazingly good nitrate print in 1972. and the having sharp cars, her mother as having a bee In her bonnet, present prints arc taken directly from this first copy her father's Wall Street associates as bulls and bears, and negative. 81 mtnutcs at 18 fps; silent. her parents cr1tid21Cd for burning the candle at both ends. ln her dream a plumber and an organ-grinder, her only contacts with the outside world, become her protectors against these fantasized dangers." (Booton Herndon, Mary 1914 -- HOME SWEET HOME $300 P!.cliford. and Douglas Fairbanks). Motton Picture News reviewed It as "the best yet, with no exceptions, buts or After D. W. Griffith left Biograph but before he made The howevers ... from first to last It ts excellent." Written by Birth of J\ Natt.on, he produced several extremely tntcrcsting Frances Manon, POOR Llrn.E RICH GIRL was superbly features for the Mutual Company. This one has three directed by the celebrated Maurice Tourneur. Of his episodes and a llnktng stoiy (although the episodes run contribution, one crttte wrote that "the camera. not Miss sequentially and arc not lntcrcut). The outstanding episode Pickford, should have been the star." Our prints have a Is "Apple Pie Mary" with Mae Marsh and Robert Hanon; the theater orgim score by the great Gaylord Carter. 67 minutes. linking stoiy depicts moments In the life of John Howard Payne. author of the song. Prints have all original titles and an added piano score at 24 fps by Hank Troy. 49 minutes. 1917 -- WILD AND WOOLLY $285 with Douglas Falrbanks WIID AND WOOLLY ts one of those rare and delightful films 1915 -- THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN which has lost none of Its wit, bounce or style, despite the WEST $325 fact that It Is more than seventy years old. Indeed, If we had Directed by Cecil B. DcMllle to choose just one Fairbanks film that not only typifies the star's own ebullient character but also can be shown without First a stage play by David Belasco, then an opera by a word of explanation to a I 990 audience, WILD AND Giacomo Puccini, TI-IE GIRL OF TI-IE GOLDEN WEST became WOOLLY would undoubtedly be our choice. Silent. 66 minutes al 18 f.p.s. one of Cecil B. DcMIUc's first feature lllms. shot In eight days at the end of 1914. Mabel Van Buren plays a game of cards with Sheriff Theodore Roberts, the stakes being freedom for her bandit love Ramerrcz (House Peters). "(DeMllle) has been 1920 --THE TOLL GATE liberal ln his use of glorious California locations and free In $325 the development of the stoiy, looking at It from the Starring William S. Hart with Anna Q. Nilsson viewpoint of a maker of photoplays determined to uUllzc the Hart has the role of Black Deering, a slashing, hard-riding best posstbtlltles of his medium ... Audiences, no matter how bandit chief. Betray"'1 by one ofhts men, Deering ts captured many Umcs they have seen the drama on the st.age, will find by U.S. Troopers but he manages to escape with the Shcrlfl's ln the film version novelty and dramatic force. 1HE GIRL posse hot on his trail. He comes upon the cabin of Mary OF TiiE GOWEN WEST ts as fresh as though It were Written Brown and learns that she Is the deserted wife of the man yesterday." (New York Dramat1c Mirror, January 13, 1915) who gave him up to the law. lnnuenced by her noble Our edition of this great rarity was converted directly from a character, Deering surrenders to the sheriff. He ls. however, 35mm original nitrate print. 63 min. at 18 fps: stlent. eventually given his freedom provided he stays south of the Mexican border. TiiE TOLL GATE Is considered by many to be one of Hart's best films. These prints are complete and were copied from 35mm nitrate. 63 minutes, stlent at 24 fps. 1916 -- INTOLERANCE $725

D. W. Griffith weaves four parallel stories from separate historical epochs Into a giant cha.se through the ages; 1922 --FOOUSH WIVES $525 perhaps the most Important American film of the stlent era. A RECONSTRUCTION OF TI-IE ORIGINAL FILM BY AND This version ts unique, being an early edition and not the Wini ERICH VON SIROHEIM reissue version which Is usually seen. An Impressive score by Gaylord Carter at 24 fps greatly enhances the Impact. I 38 After a few years of being an assistant to D. W. Grtfllth and a minutes. portrayer of cruel Huns. Erich von Strohetm talked Unlversal's Carl Laemmlc Into letting him direct and act In his own film, Bltnd Husbands (1919). Hts second film, The Devil's Passkey, was also successful. and Strohelm was given 1917 --TILLIE WAKES UP $250 a blank check for his first really blg effort, FOOLISH WIVES. starrtng Marie Dressler Strohelm wanted to depict the confused melleu of post-war Mack Sennett brought Mane Dreasler. already a famous Ew-ope In a realistic fashion, tracing all through the actions stage personality, to the screen In 1914 to co-star wtth of a bogus Russian count and his seducUve, corrupt ways. Charlie Chaplin In 1lllte's Punctured Romance. TILLIE The plot concerns this emlgre adventurer and two of hls WAKES UP. produced by Peerless-World Pictures and mistresses who pose as his cousins. leasing a villa on the sea released In January 1917, was an altogether successful near Monte Carlo. When a special American envoy follow-up and began a virtual "Tillie" series starring Miss accompanied by his young wife comes to confer with the Dressler, but filmed by a variety of different companies. A Prince of Monaco. the Imposters meet and cultivate them. youthful Johnny Hines co-stars. Silent. 53 minutes at 18 The "count" very nearly seduces Mrs. Hughes but later. as his f.p.s. 1 8 -·-·-···-·------~------escapades begin to unravel. he prepares lo 0cc. First. however, he pays a last visit to his counterfeiter. Vcnlucci, 1923 -- THE EXTRA GIRL $375 where he violates Ventuccl's feeble-minded daughter. She ts his last victim. for Vcntucci ktlls him and deposits his body Starring Mabel Normand In a scwa. The I lughescs arc reconciled.

Strohelm was understandably worried about being removed The greatest com ic actress of the s ilent screen. Mabel from this unusua l venture In mid-production. so he made Normand enjoyed an extraordinary career al Keystone and himself the star and shot all his key scenes first. leaving his Goldwyn and Is often referred to as the female Chaplin. Nowhere are her talents seen lo better advantage Ulan In back,:rs no choice except lo continue with him through to the end or to begin a ll over again at prohibitive expense. But 11 IE EXTRA GIRL. In It. she leads an African lion around on Laemmle liked Strohelm and backed the vent ure to the a leash thinking lt',i a great danc -- ,ihc filled theaters wiili amount of $1,103,736.38. Although FOOLISII WIVES lost laughter In 1923 with this scene, and the ta lented money. Its artistic success established Universal as a major comedienne will do the same at your screenings of this studio. classic silent comedy. See Mack Sennett section for other Mabel Nonnand films. Including FATTY ANO MAflEL When the average feature of the time lasted about 7 5 ADRIFT and MADEL'S MARRIED LIFE. 72 minutes a t 24 minutes, FOOLISH WIVES ran about three and a half hourn fps.; silent. at Its New York premiere In January. 1922. Even tJ1ls was less than half Strohetm's original Intention. and he complained that only the 'bones" of his s tory remained. 1924 ·· THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE Again the scissors came out. and finally the film played theaters a t ten reels. In 1928. the Rim was retitled and $475 further cut lo seven reels for a contemplated reissue and only Directed by Ernst Lubitsch this mutilated version was avatlablc for many yearn prior to Blackhawk·s finit release of this reconstruction in 1975. Ernst Lubltsch's most popular silent mm. with Adolphe Menjou. Florence Vidor and Monte Blue. brought to cinema Working from two original 35mm prints. each of which had "sophisUcatton. nonchalance. and a new kind of elegance been shortened In different places, Professor Arthur Lcnntg and wit." (Arthur Knight). " ... Portraying the promiscuily In was able to "fill out" many sequences. Later, Blackhawk high society between other men's wives and other wives' remade the 1922 tttJcs in facsimile. Because all the original husbands. all engaging freely in the Interplay. ('ll lE material had been severely trimmed. It was Impossible lo MARRIAGE CIRCLE) became a m odel for other movie reconstruct as smooth a pic torial flow as Strohelm makers and even for the national way of living." (Lewis Intended, and the print quality ts not uniformly good; J acobs. The Rise of LJie American F\Lm) . Our edition was however, Blackhawk's release runs somewhat longer tha n copied from an original print which was a bit raggedy a l the ilie original ilicatrieal version. and viewers arc now abk lo ends of some reels, but the image quality is quite good and see approximately what audiences ,iaw early In 1922. TI1e the result as a whole. In our judgment. is more tha n organ score Is recorded by John Muri al 24 fps although tJic sallsfactory. 86 minutes at 24 fps. action looks better a t 18 fps. 143 minutes at 18 fps; 107 minutes al 24 fps wiUl music. 1925 -- BATTLESlilP POTEMKIN 1922 -- OLIVER TWIST $460 $375 One of ilie most famous of all fllms, Sergei M . Eisenstein 's Jackie Coogan as Oliver. Lon Chancy as F'a&rtn; Directed by classic is offered here in a I 951 Soviet reissue cdl lion Frank Lloyd. Sol Lcsser's lavish production for Fi rst (opucally printed for sound speed projcctlon).wlth an added National; a Blackhawk Films reconstruction; organ score by music score by N. Kruikov. What more can be said? To quote John Muri. Fine prints, 77 minutes. Marie Seton: "Potemkin marked an advance In mm development comparable to that made In painting when Giotto's frescoes first appeared. Like Giotto. Eisenstein 1923 -- THE CRAZY RAY $145 ushered In a new period of expressive realism in art." Directed by Rene Clair Original Russian lntcrtilles with superimposed English subtitles. 67 minutes. Director Rene Clair made some of the best loved French comedies: 1.e Mt.llion, A Nous La Uberte. 11,e Italian S traw Hat and Under Lhe Roofs of Paris. Dul before tJ1esc when he 1925 -- DON Q. SON OF ZORRO was a twenty-five year old Journalist, Clair made his first $575 film , Paris Qui Dorl. widely known as TI IE CHAZY RAY. with Douglas Fairbank,i This delightful comedy went successfully around the wor ld, Inspired a whole generation of avant-garde film makers and J-1vc years and an equal number of fllms after lllE MAHK OF' earned a place In every good history of cinema. although it was a lmost an amateur effort. produced by Clair with hardly ZORRO. Fairbanks returned to the Spanish colonies for iliis sequel. Again his dashing wins the lady In an excellent any budget at all. ll!E CRAZV HAY is the story of a loony scientist who. using a powerful ray. freezes Paris In the adventure. But this time Doug plays four roles. Instead of the midst of its late-night life . The only people who escape the two as 1n the original. Musical setting by Gaylord Carter al paraly.,ing power arc the night watchman asleep al the lop the Mighty Wurlitzer. 113 minutes. of the Eiffel Tower and a few air pa<,scngcrs who anivc a fter the ray's effect. Life resumes 24 hours later after the old doctor Is persuaded to switch off his ray. Like Chaplin, 1925 --THE PHANTOM OF THE whom he greatly admired. Clair's work makes eloque nt comment on human foibles. ·n,osc unaffected by the ray use OPERA $500 the opportunity to gather monc.-y and finery for themselves. Social roles become distorted when house-breaker Slippe ry Lon Chancy, Nonnan Kerry. Mary Philbin; directed by Jim. who was being brought to prison In handcuffs. becomes Rupert Julian. The most famous film version of Gaston the m ost valuable member of the active, little band. But Leroux' novel. Lon Chaney's performance and Den Carrc's when the city wakes, pursued and pursuers take up old roles - magnificent settings have established this film as an - and Clair makes a pointed but entirely visual comment on enduring classic. This is a stunning print with the Dal familiar social distinctions. Our prints arc the original Masque sequence In Technicolor, and a musical selling by (abridged) American version of 1927. AT 3 :25. Added Gaylord Carter. 79 minutes. musical score. 20 minutes.

1 9 1928 .. PANDORA'S BOX $550 Douglas Burden edited the film with Richard Carver, and Directed by G. W. Pabst was extremely grat1flcd when 1HE SILENT ENEMY opened at the same New York theater where Chang had been so Directed by G. W. Pabst with Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortncr, successful. "High on the list of the cinema's nobler Francis Lederer and Gustav Dlessl, ballCd on two plays by achievements," wrote critic Robert E. Sherwood, "arc the Wedekind. "A case can be made that PANDORA'S BOX was names of Nanook of the North, Grass, Stark Love, and the last of the stlentftlms •· not literally, but acsthcllcally. Chang. They were contributed lo the screen by enterprising On the threshold or Its premature death, the medium In explorers who took their cameras Into remote, neglected PANDORA achieved near perfection In form and content." regions. and recorded the drama that Is life. By such (Bany Pans, Loutse Brooks) This edition was assembled ln courageous deeds has the humble movie Justified Its 35mm from several sources, Is substantially complete (110 existence. Now there Is another picture to be added to the minutes al 24 r.p.s.) and the quality ls rather good. distinguished list. It Is called nIE SILENT ENEMY ... It deserves to be seen, for It ls beautiful. It ls superbly acted. and In many of Its scenes, tremendously exciting. Such pictures 1930 ·· $500 will continue to be of Intense value aficr Alice White and THE SILENT ENEMY Buddy Rogers have been forgotten. They arc permanent, eloquent records of races and customs that arc vanishing AN EPIC OF 1HE AMERICAN INDIAN from the earth." Described for the Blackhawk Bulletin by Kevin Brownlow A special musical score was composed for the picture by The llllc refers lo hunger. The ntm Is an Impeccable Massard Kur Zhenc. Mr. Kur Zhcne spent time among the rcconslrucUon ln story form or OJlbway Indian life as It was Ojlbway collecting original melodics, and from the 150 before the while man came. Conceived and produced In full separate songs he wrote down. he drew the themes he used In awareness that the Indian and the wilderness were both working up the music. Blackhawk's prints offer a new rapidly vanishing. It was made sixty years ago for the recording or the Kur Zhenc score performed by John Muri on purpose or leaving a visual record for the America that was theater organ. The beautiful melodics add Immeasurably to lo come or the America that used to be. the fllm's effect. 87 minutes, with music track and synchronous prologue. Douglas Burden, a young explorer, had been profoundly Impressed by the Menan C. Coopcr··Emcst Schocdsack film Chang. and with his panncr William Chanler, dlrcctor H. P. Carver, and a team or Hollywood professionals, lndcpcndenlly financed and produced the picture for release by Paramount. Remembering The Twenties

The story line, which H. P. Carver's son Richard elaborated Into a sccnarlo, was based on a study or 7he Jesull RelatlDns, DAREDEVIL DAYS a running record ln 72 volumes or the travels of Jesuit (1952) $75 missionaries In New France (1610-1791). "Not one episode was Invented by us" declared Burden, ''with the exception of From the vast Pathc news library. Academy Award-winning the bear on the cliff." producer Robert Youngson wrote and produced DAREDEVIL DAYS as part of a remarkable series of one and two reel Chief Yellow Robe, who plays Chief Chctoga, was a shorts. This one documents the special craziness that swept hereditary chief of I.he Sioux and a nephew of Silting Bull. the country with the end or WWI, Including daring stunts He also wrote and spoke the moving prologue that opens the atop the Statue or Liberty; cyclists circling the dome of San picture. The hunter Baluk was a highly-decorated World War Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, human flies scaling tall veteran. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, a contemporary of buildings or walking a steel gtrdcr 300 feet up. Strongmen Jim Thorpe al Carlisle. For the remainder of the cast, bend steel In their teeth and stunlcrs perform mld·air plane Burden spent six weeks traveling by canoe along the shore of transfers ·• blindfolded, along with lots or other stunts to Abllabl Lake searching for photogenic and co-operative make you gasp and laugh. 10 minutes. OJtbway.

Conditions were rugged. The temperature frequently plummeted to 35 degrees below. Many scenes were taken a I NEVER FORGET A FACE thousand miles north of the railroad, In areas accessible (1956, Academy Award Nominee) $75 only by canoe In summer, or dog team In winter. Burden, suffering from amoebic dysentery picked up In Nicaragua In This Academy Award Nominee produced by Robert 1924, was confined lo his tepee for three weeks at a stretch, Youngson features famous faces. Calvin Coolidge Is made an surviving on tomato Juice. honorary Sioux chief; John D. Rockefeller clowns with his family; Presidents Harding and Tart get In a few golf swings; One point that ts almost certain lo arouse curiosity Involved George Bernard Shaw trades quips with reporters In Miami. the amazing animal pictures. There ts no fakery. The Also seen Is the legendary Scopes "Monkey Trial" with wolves. for example, arc not Malamutes or wolf dogs ·• they defense lawyer Clarence Darrow battling prosecutor WUllam arc real. honesl· lo·God wolves. The animal sequences were Jennings Bryan. 10 minutes. obtained by dint of endless patience, plus a great deal of Ingenuity.

The fight between the mountain lion and the bear Is a scene SPILLS AND CIULLS which causes a great deal of comment, even today. Burden (1948, Academy Award Nominee) $75 was not present when Louis Bonn shot the sequence. But he remembers the principle. 'They found that the bear was Hair-raising stunt scenes like these make the twenties roar, always the attacker. Herc was a dead deer, both the bear and and this Academy Award nominee produced by Robert the mountain lion were damn hungry. They let the Youngson captures the spirit of these crazy daredevils mountain lion get al the deer first, then they released I.he through actual newsreel footage. You11 thrill to mld-alr bear from another enclosure. I le went al the mountain lion, wing walkers, aerial barnstormers, plane-to-car and plane· and a fight broke out. The mountain lion escaped up a tree, to-plane transfers ... lunatics hanging on to planes by their and the bear was so mad he went right up the tree after him, hands. feet and teeth; human files, human cannonballs, and and out on a limb. They fell off I.he limb and continued much more. Planes, cars and skyscrapers arc the props: the flghllng together on the ground. That was how the scene spills and chills speed by al an Incredible pace. A brilliant, worked out." na11-bltlng collccUon of breathtaking displays. 10 minutes. 20 The Coming of Sound 1930 -- YAMECRAW $75

1923 .. SNAPPY TUNES $65 James P. Johnson, bri1l!ant pianist and composer, Is best remembered for such tunes as "Charleston," "Old Fashioned Noble Sissie and Euble Blake. the great entertainers who Love." and "Running Wild;" however. he also composed nne (among m any other accomplishments) wrote SHUFF1..E concert pieces on themes taken from American Negro music. ALONG. the first all-Black Broadway show, appeared two Yamecraw, one of the fust of these, began as a piano work In years after that notable achievement In this experimental 1927: Johnson orchestrated It the following year, and sound film produced by tnventor Lee De Forest to show off adapted It to this movie In which he Joins the rest of the all­ his ''Phononlm" system of optical sound reproduction. With Black cast In a supporting part. The visual style Is a mix of Blake at the piano. Sissie sings "Affectionate Sam" a nd Caltgan and Potemktn with jagged silhouette sets and rapid other light-hearted tunes by the p air. The De Forest system cutting, a self-con sciou s but completely engaging period ran a t 2 I .33 frames per second rather than at 24. 90 there Is a piece. Prlnts arc excellent. 11 minutes. slight "chipmunk" effect when the movie Is run on modem projectors. Also, unfortunately, the 35mm original material for this film was badly detcriortated so the picture Is motlled and the sound Is very noisy. The content. however, Is 1931 .. GHOSTS OF HOLLYWOOD priceless. 8 minutes al 24 f.p.s. $75

Tour abandoned silent s tudios of early Hollywood In this 1927 -· SIR ARTHUR CONAN one-reeler produced three years after the coming of sound. The Mack Sennett, Paramount Wils hire, Vltagraph and OOYIE $85 Metro lots arc among those s hown In fascinating decay: then, the film moves on to cheerful views of Hollywood Although SIR ARTI!UR CONAN DOYLE consists of scarcely Boulevard by day and night. with "Arrowsmith" among the more than half a dozen lengthy shots, this very early sound current l\rst runs. Produced by Talking Picture Epics with film Is an Intimate and deeply moving record of the man priceless elocutionary n a rration, perhaps spoken by who created In Sherlock Holmes one of the most famous and Demosthenes. 10 min best loved of a ll literary characters.

Tve got to say one or two words Just to try my voice, i understand." Doyle begins. Then he relates how, in 1886, he came to wr1te the Sherlock Holmes stories, and for five minutes h e gives a r1ch and humorous history of his scientific detective In a warm Scotch burr. But even dearer to Doyle than Holmes was his bellcf In the a fterlife, and In the Animation last half of the film the famous author discusses the psychic faith for which he endured much hostility and to which he was so deeply committed. 12 minutes. Silent Animation

1928 ·· COAST TO COAST IN 48 PUSS 'N BOOTS HOURS $145 (1923, with added music score) $75 Walt Disney settled In Kansas City In 1919, worked as a An early sound advertising Olm m ade for TAT Maddux commercial artist with the Kansas City Film Ad Company. Airlines (la ter TWA) showing travel from New York City lo and then moonligh led in 1920 making short anima tion and Los Angeles In 250-mlle alternating plan e and train hops in only 48 hours. Lots of funl 20 minutes. s top motion advertising films called "Newman's Laugh-O­ Grams·· for the Newman Theatre. In 1922 Disney formed his own company. Laugh-O-Grams Films, Inc .. and was soon a dvertising a series of six modernized, animated fairy tales. 1929 --FLYING lllGH $145 PUSS 'N D001S. the fourth In this series. satirizes Rudolph Valentino In BLOOD AND SAND, then a popular feature. A Herc's an unusual two-reel comedy with that special "early score by Gaylord Carter at the Wurlitzer h as been added to talkies" flavor. Produced by Carl Laemmlc. Jr. fo r this silent cartoon. 12 minu tes. Unlvenial. FLYING HIGH Is pan of 'The Collegians" series and offers something for everyone ·· film historians, aerial bu/Ts, action fans, and 8-movle lovers. It Is a genuine hybrid talkie ·• a subject which began production as a silent l\lm TIIE VOICE OF THE and then, In the midst of the sweeping revolution of talking NIGHTINGALE (1923) $95 pictures, shot !ts remaining scenes with full sound. Thus. It begins with dialogue which Is replaced halfway through by Starcvltch. a Pole, animated his nrst film In 1909 for the title cards (ours a rc the originals ) and musical Czar of Russia's offspring. Using fantastic puppets accompaniment, and concludes as a talkie. fl.YING HIGH photographed palnstakJngly frame by frame. Starcvllch 's finds Calford University buZZ!ng about a mysterious aviator nlms a r c the most a m azingly Intricate of all movie whose airborne stunts arc thrllllng th e collegiate animation. a series of small masterpieces. In this fllm, a community. It's Bob Livingston, but a news story little girl whose doll Is broken captures a nightingale. The mistakenly Identifies George Lewis. who's never been In a bird, desperately searching for h is lost male, leads the girl plane In his life. When a student aviator ch a llenges him, Into a magical, undersized world of grasshoppers, crickets George reluctantly agrees, over his girlfriend's protests. to an and butterflies and begs for his freedom. One of the greatest "endurance contest In the air." Watch these spectacular an d most exquisite of these loo little known films by m aster aerial sequences and sec how things come out! The cast animator. Ladtslas S tarcvllch . THE VOICE OF THE features a young Waller Brennan, a skinny Andy Devine, N!GIITINGALE Is beautifully reproduc ed In color from a a nd Bob Livings ton, the soon- lo-be. B·weslcm s tar In hand-colored, Prizma colo r and tinted nitrate original. Republic's h eralded Three Mcsqultecrs series. 20 minutes Silent: 15 minutes a t 18 f.p.s. 21 Sound Animation 'Wontfufu{ anti wontler-fil{d etampks of tfu f a,nous animator's baked goods musical was 11-IE COOKIE ComiCofor anti !f(ip tlie 7ros cartoons 6y 'U6 lwe1*J, tlie fi111 CARNIVAL (1935); also a tasty confection. But the of 'Dis'nq's 9reat anim.ato11, anti rdt.asetf tfuatrically 6y M(jM. burlesque-comic, low bathroom humor of QUEEN OF 'I1u cowr films are reprotfucd in 'Lutmancowr frum 35mm HEARlS out-bawdled Disney's attempt. This lwerks cartoon onama£ nitrate tfup£iti.ed Cinuo£or prints. gains a lilting score from Disney's cx-Mustc Dlrcctor Carl Stalling, father of "Silly Symphonies." QUEEN OF HEARTS Is a savozy, lavish, antmatcd holiday! Color; 8 minutes. Comicolors

THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER Flip the Frog (1934) $75

This loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's BULLONEY celebrated ''lhe Steadfast Tin Soldier" boasts a supporting (1933) $75 cast no less than Eddie Cantor, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers •• pcrfonntng as toys! Emotionally the most One gag reels spontaneously (seemingly) Into the next: the scrtous of the Comlcolors, It benefits from the rich style of bullfight begins as a wn:stltng match between toreador and animator Jimmie Culhane. 8 minutes. bull; but before the craziness Is over, It's become a football game, a basketball game, and a human cannonball act. Even baseball ls part of this picture when the bull rushes to a HUMPTY DUMPTY Bull Pen for reinforcements. Funny drawings beget even funnier gags. 8 min. (1934) $75

Like a Busby Berkeley musical. this sprtghtJy melodrama kicks Its egg legs high while singing "Spooning In A Spoon." FUNNY FACE Humpty, son of Humpty. Is constantly scolded by mom to (1933) $65 quit playtng around with heights or he'll end up like poor dad. The lad meets a pretty llttle egg. but there's a villain, Flip the Frog plays half of this show under a different face, too, who steals the girl away. As Humpty struggles with Bad which was shortly twned Into Jwcrks' next character, Willie Egg. his sweetheart falls Into a pan of boiling water. She's Whopper. This production Is lwcrks' own vartallon on the still pretty. but she's a llttle hard-bolled now and talks like Frog-Prtncc but, like the best comedies. Its message Is never Mac West. She disposes of the villain and drags Humpty at the expense of Its wit. Fllp's girlfriend. animated by Grim away. Luckily. Humpty falls In the water. too, and the two Natwick, Is a dead ringer for Betty Boop, another of that become a knockout pair. lwerks strayed from the fable animator's creations. 8 minutes. again, but HUMP1Y Is so packed with fast, lntelllgcnt gags, choice cameo caricatures and catchy music that It Is hard to object. One ofhts best Comlcolors. 8 minutes. THE NEW CAR (1931) JACK AND THE BEANSTALK $65 (1933) $75 This ts one of the fwmtcst of Fllp's vehicles, full of dellrtous comic transposition like the car's elaborate feminine come­ This English talc of Jack who foolishly swaps his mother's on In the auto yard, the "get set" signal that precedes the cow for three beans, only to end up with a hen laytng golden traffic light's "go." and a Don Martin-style cop who punches eggs, cleverly coincided with the wish of Depression-era Fllp's Ucket as he dellvcrs It. The climax Is a magnlftccnl audiences to sec folly converted to riches. It's one of lwerks' anJmated tracking shot. Short-subject animation was soon fastest-moving, most successful cartoons. 9 minutes. lo forego such spectacle as needlessly extravagant. 8 minutes. JACK FROST (1934) $75 OFFICEBOY (1932) $75 Full of Invention, high splrtts. and delightful surprises, this Is a gorgeously drawn. very active cartoon, jam-packed with To describe this as a cartoon In which Flip the Frog gets a job Ideas; probably lwcrks' masterpiece. 9 minutes. as a ofTlcc boy, works one day. and Is fired Is like saying that ChaplJn's One A.M. Is about a dnmk going up to bed. n.c story ts that simple, but the Him Is so gag-packed that the THE QUEEN OF HEARTS third or fourth viewing Is funnier than the first. (1934) $75 The lecherous old President of the Screwy Nut & Bolt Company harasses his virtuous but lrreslsUbly sexy typist The Charles Laughton-y King of Hearts craves tarts! His (who endures, among other suggestive Indignities, a real cat Queen's heart-shaped cooks jump to the task. Forsooth--the and mouse pursuit up one leg and down the other). Carl W. dunderheads In error mix soap powder In the dough! The Stalllng's score Is a charmer, and the throwaway are luscious-looking desserts gel snatched by the Incorrigible gags surreal (example: pictures of screws and nuts adorn the wall. knave, Jack of Hearts. So a hllartous, non-stop scramble along with a large framed Image of the factory which seems starts. Directed by Ub lwerks and animated by Jimmie to occupy a whole block although there arc only three office "Shamus" Culhane, one of the '30's and '40's most highly personnel. one of whom ts a frog, When the quitting whistle praised animators (regarded fondly for Inky and the I.ion, a blows, hundreds of workers pour out of the picture). Worktng Leon Schlesinger 1941 "Loonc:y Tunes"), QUEEN OF HEARTS from the original 35mm sound negative and two nitrate along with 1934's 1HE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER Is the most picture clements, we've reconstituted the complete pre-code generous, fast-paced extravaganza among Jwerks Clnecolor version of this spicy, clever Ub lwcrks cartoon. 7 minutes. "Falrytales." Walt Disney's answer to his mutineering 22 ROOM RUNNERS The Thirties (1932) 1933--THE PRIVATE LIFE OF Flip Is behind on the rent. and the schoolmarm at the desk of the Grand Slam Hotel, along with the cop on the beat. plan KING HENRY VIIl $525 on maktng him pay. Flip W1Succcasfully trice every method of escape • but he docs meet some scantily clad cartoon Charles Laughton (Academy Award, Best Actor). Robert beauties In the process. This Is an amazingly risque pre· Donal. Elsa Lanchester. directed hy Alexander Korda. This code ca rtoon starring a libidinous Flip the Frog. 8 minutes. touching. bawdy and funny s tory of the much-manied mona rc h was the first British film to win inlemattonal success. 90 minutes.

SPOOKS 1934 --OUR DAILY BREAD $470 (1932) $75 Producer-director King Vidor. famous for 1lie Big Parade and An outstanding Flip the Frog cartoon, this Ume a gruesome 1lie Champ, risked his own fortune to make this ldcaltslic adventure that almost marks the end of his career. On a social drama which presents collective farms as a solution dark and stormy night, with lightning nashtng and g.ale to the Depression. The flnal 15 minutes. In which water ts winds blowing, Flip and his horse head for shelter In a brought to parched fields. ts one of cinema's classic ghostly mansion. F11p finds his host to be a very lively, b ut sequences. The original n egative was available for this menacing skeleton, who Insists on sharing his meal. As the edition and prints are excellent. The color prologue. made In night proceeds, Flip meets a skeleton dancer, skeleton 1983, feat= an on-camera Introduction by Vidor. 79 min. musicians. even a skeleton dog. Fllp's future Is perilous and when he discovers that he Is scheduled to become a skeleton too, he opts for the great outdoors, storm or not. Excellent 1936 --THE PLOW THAT BROKE Illusions and good fun In this eerie cartoon. 8 mtnutes. THE PLAINS $195 1HE PLOW 11 !AT 0 ROKE 1HE PLAINS broke the European monopoly on social documentary films. Through the TECHNO-CRACKED Reselllemcnl Administration, Pare Lorentz. a well-known (1933) $75 movie critic of the period. wrote. directed and edited th Is first American effort with vision and ambition . His fine Technoc racy was a depression-Inspire d theory o f producllon unit included Paul Strand. the famous sllll government. regarded by Its proponents as suitable for a photographer, and Virgil Thomson. whose music beautifully technological age, In which all economic resources, a nd underscores the acllon. The subject Is the scllling of the hence the entire social system. would be controlled by Great Plains. Its subsequenl misuse, and the ravages of scientists and engineers. Produced a t the bottom of the nature to whic h the land finally succumbed in the thirties. depression of the l 930's, It was only natura l lllBt one of the The film carried the story of the "Du st Bowl" lo millions, ''Flip" cartoons would have Its name tnsplrcd by this system, prompting a ction to reclaim and restore the land; It has lost which many people thought of a s being a little nutty from none of Its vigor. Prtnts are excellent. 25 mtnutc.'<. the beginning. At any rate, our cartoon finds Flip In a tree­ top level hammock. belt powered In full technocratic style. by a treadmtll on which a dog ts running. only to go faster 1938 ·· TIIE CHILDHOOD OF and faster as the dog Increases his speed , a nd even faster as MAXIM GORKY the old battleaxe. whose properly It L'<, comes out to put Flip $575 to work mowing the lawn. Flip no more than begins his Produced in the U.S.S.R. and directed by Mark Donskoi, this mowing, when a copy of "Unpopular Mechanics" with an masterpiece depicts Gorky's early life In the 1870-s. and Is article on The Mechanical Man gets In his way and slops the based upon his 1902 autobiography My Chlldhood. Critic mowing. Flip decides to build such a Monster, and succeeds Roger Manvell describes It as "the outstanding example In In no time. The only thin~ about his creation Is that It has the whole Soviet cinema of the expression of humane no discretion. and can only imita te . ily the lime fl goes off feelings and cha racterization. Social propaganda, though on Its own. It's mowing everything tn sight. and tha t Is only present, always Lakes second place In tht,i m ost moving the beginning of the acllon that forms the climax of this biography of a boy who gains his understanding of life subject. 8 mtnutes. through years of terrible poverty and suffcrtng:· In Classics of the Foreign F'ilm. Parker Tyler writes that "It sears and wilts the very heart. but the heart ts revived with the lifeblood of gayety ... In a film ... having ,iu ch persuasive powers of s howing good and evil on equal terms In human society." In Russian with English subtitles. 100 minutes. Rain.bow Parade 1941 -- POT 0' GOLD $525 FELIX THE CAT & THE GOOSE James Stewart. Paulcllc Goddard, llorace Heldt & His Musical KnlghLs; directed by George Marshall. Based on the THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG radio money giveaway s how of the same name. this was (1936) $75 James Roosevelt's first and last m ovie production. Pollllcal connections provided access lo I lollywood's best talent for Elements from "Jack the Giant KJller" arc transported lo the this Independent picture. a lavish musical revolving around Depression era In this Technicolor cartoon directed by Burt a big band's struggle for Its 'big break." Excellent prints. 88 Gillett (director of the Disney Academy Award winners mtnutcs. "Flowers and Trees" and 'Three Lillie Pigs") and Tom Palmer. Herc the eponymous goose works for the Relief See also PACK UP l'OUR TROUBLES, SONS OF THE DESERT Bureau but Is kidnapped by stngtng pirates. Felix goes to the rescue. despite a fusillade of gold coins. and becomes the and WAY our WEST under Laurel and Hardy: also see town hero. 7 minutes. ~ Classb.

23 World War I IT HAPPENED TO YOU (1954) $145 Great Britain Robert Youngson scoured the vast Pathe newsreel Ubrary for the most beautiful shots to narrate America's participation In the First World War from the point of view of an ordtnaiy CAMERAMEN AT WAR * doughboy. The story ts familiar but the Intimate shots of (1943) boot camp, the spectacular aerial views of troops marching $125 home through the Victory An:h on New York's Ftfih Avenue, Produced by Len Lye for the Crown Flbn Unit In 1943, thls ls and all the stwming Images In between make It fresh again. a tribute to courageous British and American combat Youngson cut up the origtna) negative of the newsOlm for hta photographers who are shown In action and arc represented comptlaUons; this practice, although archlvally appalling, by aome of their thrilling and famous shots. Some of these resulted in beautiful print quality. 20 minutes. men had a1ao served In the ftdd during 1914-18 (clips from World War I are Included); bibute ts accorded others who fell while this extraordinary compilation was In production. THIS WAS YESTERDAY Reproduced from good original nitrate material; 15 minutes. (1954) $145 Using Pathe news footage, Robert Youngion compiled Images of events of 1916 leadtng up to America's entry into World DESERT VICTORY * War I, Including the Black Tom Explosions and beautiful (1943) $475 footage of Pershing's puntuve expedition Into Mexico after Winner, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico. 18 minutes. This film record of the Battle of El Alameln and the triumphant 80-day, 1300-mlle chase of Rommel's Afrtka Korps across North Africa to Trtpoll by the Bnttsh Eighth United States Army In the fall of 1942 marked a tunllng point In the war. Its exposition of the strategy and tactics of the campaign Is a APPEASEMENT AT MUNICH model of clarity. It was al90 one of the first ffims to bring to (1938-74) $75 the civilian population the reality of front-line combat and the human cost of victory. During the filming. four On February 20, 1938, Hitler announced his Intention to cameramen were killed, six were wounded, and seven were secure "general Freedom" for the German population In captured. The first British troops lo enter Tobruk were Czechslovakta. Tension mounted through the summer, cameramen, seven hours In advance of the flghUng forces. culminating In the events of September 12th through September 30th, shown here. We see Hitler at the Nazi party Directed by Capt. Roy Boultlng: produced by Maj . David convention in Nuremberg, reviewing his armed might; In his MacDonald; photographed by 62 cameramen of the Army mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden, and during his Fllm and Photographic Unit attached to the B11tlsh Eighth triumphal entry Into the Sudetenland. But the dubious Army; music by William Alwyn; a production of the Army Immortality of Munich Is reserved for British Prime Film and Photographic Unit and the Royal Air Force Film Minister Neville Chamberlain, who three times flew lo meet Production Unit, 1943. These arc authentic pl1nts from the Hitler in hope that peace could be bought with compromise. C.0.1. ncgaUvc; restricted lo U.S.A. 62 minutes. APPEASEMENT AT MUNICH. a Blackhawk compilation, traces the course of events at Munich with the full uncertainty and threat felt everywhere during that LONDON CAN TAKE IT * frightening summer of 1938. It Is not only riveUng but ts a (1940) $85 document In Itself, for the judgment of history must recognize not only those facts subsequently discovered but Often referred to as the first great film of World War II, this ts also the situation as It seemed at that time, which Is shown an eye-witness account of the first London blitz. It had an here just as presented to American theater audiences tn the enormous Impact at the time, ma king the war Immediate original newsreel stories. 12 minutes. and real for Amencans, for whom the then-familiar voice of London correspondent Quentin Reynolds gave It added meaning. Directed by Harry Watt (Night Matl) and JAPANESE RELOCATION Humphery Jennings (Usten to Bnlaln) with music by Ralph (1942) $75 Vaughn Williams. Authentic pl1nts from British negative, released by Blackhawk for the ftrst time. 10 min. Produced in 1942 by the Office of War Information, this documentary attempts to explain the removal of Japanese­ Americans from California's coastal cities to Internment camps In remote Inland areas of the state. The Olm ts Germany narrated by Milton Eisenhower, and shows the abandonment of property and livelihood and the first days at camp as If these actlvlllcs were the willing patl1otlc BLITZKRIEG THROUGH NAZI offerings of the affected clllzcns. This edition ts reproduced from an excellent nitrate p rint and ts complete In its EYES $145 ongtnal length of 7 minutes, although chunks appear to This Is the actual UFA newsreel Issue for the third week of have been taken out at the last minute pr1or to release. The May, 1940, which reported to Germany Its attack on Belgium music Is edited from Virgil Thomson's score to 71-ie River. and the Netherlands as necessary self-defense against the enemy lowlandersl In addition to the amazing content, the THE TOWN ftlm Is of Interest for its style: dynamic, h ighly pictorial (1943) Images, and a symphonic score butt.resscd by a male chorus $75 which swells In celebration of the commentator's prediction Beautifully photographed, this war-time view of the home of the thousand-year Reich. We have translated the German front was produced by the Office of War Information and narration with superimposed English titles. Blackhawk's shows everyday folks at the bowling alley (remember pin copy was made from a perfect nitrate print and the picture setters?). movies, soda fountain, school, llbnuy, park and sound arc In cxcc))cnt condition. 17 minutes. concerts and jury duty. A little Idyll contributed lo the war effort by legendary Hollywood director, Josef von Sternberg, See also 'I'OSCANlN1 VERDI. 11 minutes. CONDUCTS GVJSEPPE 24 Black Historu Music

A NATURAL-BORN GAMBLER INSTRUMENTS OF THE (1 9 16) $95 ORCHESTRA * (1947) $165 Bert Williams. who began w11h Lew Dockstadter's Minstrels in 1888 and by 1915 was headlining lhc Ziegfeld Follies, Is In this cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed film. Dr. lhe star of this film. which Is one of lhe first ever made w!lh Malcolm Sargent. the famous Br!Ush conductor. explains a Dlack man In the Iced. But Williams. who was llght­ that a symphony orchestra can be likened to a single great sklnned, nevcrthelcss dons burnt cork for this comedy set musical tnslrument with four parts -- the wood winds. brass. around gaming tables--an environment which affords the strings. and percussion , To Illustrate lhfs. he leads the star opporluntty to "palm" cards w1th his toes. play e London Symphony Orchestra tn Benjamin Britten's pantomime game of poker. a nd otherwise display spec1ally written music. 'Var!alions and a Fugue on a Theme extraordinary moments from his famous stage routtnes. by Henry Purcell.'" First. Dr. Sargent '"takes the orchestra lo The sound track contains e nickelodeon piano score and pieces" and show how music ts produced by each of twenty­ interesting background Information about Wtlllams, but lhe six different instruments. Then he "puts the orchestra action moves very fest at 24 f.p.s. so we prefer silent speed together again" and conducts the lovely Fugue. Aulhenlic projection wtlh the sound off. Picture quality on this prints from C.O.1. negative: restricted to the United States. Biograph productlon Is very good. 14 mlnules et 24 f.p.s.: 19 20 minutes. min. a t 18 f.p.s.

MOODS OF THE SEA $85 SNAPPY TUNES A Film by Slavko Vokapich and John Hoffman (1923) $65 Visualizing "Les J lebrtdes" by Felix Mendelssohn

Noble SiRslc and Eublc Blake, the great entertainers who From the time of his exprc..'ISionfslic Ufe and Dea1h of a (among many other accompltshmentsl wrote SIIUFFLE Hollywood Extra. S lavko Vorkaplch was famous for ALONG. lhe first a ll-Black Broadway show. appeared two visually-creative ftlmmaking. I Its imaginative montage years after lhat notable achlevemenl in this experimental sequen ces are seen In The Good Earth. Clime Without sound mm produced by inventor Lee De Forest to s how off Passion, Mr. Smid, Goes To Washington, Joan of Arc and his "Phononlm" system of optical sound reproduction. With many other movie classics. Vorkapich stubbornly Blake al the piano, Sissie stngs ""Affectionate Sam'" a nd advocated the potential of cinema as an Independent fonn of other light-hearted tunes by the pair. The De Forest ")'stem art that could r!S(! to great h eights of visual poetry. MOODS ran a t 21 .33 frames per second r ather lhan at 24. so then: is a 01' 11 IE SEA represents a demonstrative peak of his theory. s light "chipmunk" effect when the movie Is run on modem In it. he juxtaposes Images of the sea with Felix projectors. Afao, unfortunately, the 35mm original material Mendel,.,,ohn's ''Flngal',a Cave" overture. By the power and for this film was badly delerioriated so the picture is molllcd magic of selection and arrangement. its captured visions and the sound Is very noisy. The content. however. Is become an eloquent. abstract drama of living thought and priceless. 6 minutes at 24 f.p.s. feeling. John Hoffman is best known for having so powerfully recreated the 1906 San Franciso earthquake via cinematic TOOT THAT TRUMPET montage that it has served as an example of s u ch (1943) fl lmmak1ng ever stnce. He produced MOODS OF 11-IE SEA $75 with Vorkaplch, his collaborator for forty years. We recommend this cincmatlc treasure for anyone who loves fllm, music, poetry, a rt, the sea. the earth. Produced In 1942: first released In 1978. ll is bcauuful black-and-white with a running time of 10 minutes.

A mosl unusual grouping of four different musicals with four '"Ihis film can be seen on two leuels··as an emotional, different black artists or groups of artt,ats from nearly ha lf a aesthetic experience: or as an excercise in pure technique. century ago. The numbers were produced during World War The effect on the viewer is both sharp and resounding. fl for showing on '"Sou ndles" movie juke boxes in h otel Vorkapich was, of course, llu: master exponent of montage·· lobbies, railroad stations. Army and Navy recreation the combination of sound and imagery devis ed to centers, and other spots where service per,aonnel ga thered. communicate in a language not yet fully explored nor The original negatives were available as preprint. so pic lurc utilized and Vorkapich was Us prophet. Hl.s contributions and sound quality arc excellent. 10 m1nuu:s. haue yet lo be fuUy measured, but euen as they hint at the Infinite possibilities yet to be dL.scovered, their impact will be felt throughout the history of contemporary cinema." YAMECRAW .. William Fried kin (1 930) $75 James P. Johnson, brilliant pianist and composer. ts best TOSCANINI CONDUCTS remembered for such tunes as "Charleston," "Old Fashioned Love," and "Running Wild:" however. he also composed fi ne GIUSEPPE VERDI (19451 $195 concert pieces on themes ta ken from American Negro music. Yamecrnw. one of the first of these, ucgan as a piano work In Arturo Toscanini. the NBC Symphony, and tenor Jan Pccrcc 1927: Johnson orchestrated It lhc foll ow1ng year, and perform the overture lo 'La Forza del Destina" and ·11ymn of adapted it to this m ovie in which he joins the rest of lhc a ll­ the Nations" by Verdi lo celebrate the liberation of Italy. Black cast in a supporting part. The visual style is a mix of Produced by the Office of War Information under Caligari and Potemkin with Jagged silhouette sets and rapid supervision of Alexander llammid. 28 minutes. cutting. a self-conscious but completely engaging period piece. Prints arc excellent. I I minutes. See also SNAPPY TUNES, YAMECRA W wid TOOT THAT TRUMPET.

25 Personalities The Blackhawk Films library ... ts pnmartly the accomplishment of Kent D. Eastin, who started business tn 1927 making fllm ads for m erchants, HORSEIDDE HEROES filming local news events for theater newsreels, and selling (1953) $75 outdated, Independent theatrical 35mm ftlm prints for toy projectors of the day from the basement of his parents' home Robert Youngson·s tribute to the Great National Pastime's tn Galesburg, llltnols. With the advent of 16mm sound ftlm biggest personalities, including Grover Cleveland Alexander, In 1934, Eastin moved his company to Davenport. Iowa and Mel Ott, 1y Cobb and JolUn' Joe DiMaggio. Also rare footage began a rental library which flourished until It was of Babe Ruth taken during his baseball and fihn career, and discontinued under the Impact of television In 1957. Eastin Lou Gchng's legendary farewell speech. 10 min. selected Davenport as an efficient juncUon for rall shlpptng and because It was something of a "fllm town." as home to I NEVER FORGET A FACE the Victor Anlmatograph Corporation, a pioneer motion (1956, Academy Award Nominee) $75 picture equipment manufacturer. Marttn D. Phelan, with background tn direct mall This Academy Award Nominee features famous faces. and management, ten Montgomery Ward to partner with Calvin Coolidge ts made an honorary Sioux chief; John D. Eastin In 1947, and assume responsibility for the business Rockefeller clowns with hts family; Presidents Harding and side of the developing company. The Blackhawk name was Tan get In a few golf swlngii; George Bernard Shaw trades first used for an auxiliary business, llquldatlng stocks of quips with reporters In Miami. Also seen Is the legendary used 16mm prints from Bnttsh Information Services, Mills Scopes "Monkey Trial" with defense lawyer Clarence Darrow Panoram Sou ndles, and other llbra rics and producers. battling prosecutor William J ennings Bryan. 10 minutes. Blackhawk began publish ing monthly catalogs In 1949. More than 2,500,000 used films were sold by ma ll before this business was discontinued In 1981. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In 1952, Blackhawk tntroduccd Its own releases tn (1927) $85 both 8mm and 16mm. Included In this "Collectors Serles" Although SIR ARlHUR CONAN DOYLE consists of scarcely were Laurel & Hardy silents from Hal Roach Studios, authonzed editions of Keystone comedies licensed by more than half a dozen lengthy shots, this very early sound Scnncll's onglnal backer, Roy Altken; and a grouping of fllm ts an Intimate and deeply moving record of the man railroad films. (Kent Eastin was an avid tratn enthusiast. He who created In Sherlock I lolmcs one of the most famous and best loved of all literary characters. had a basement wall of bound timetables and would ask us to arrive at 7:28 for dinner at 7:301) In time, Blackhawk grew to "I've got to say one or two words just to try my voice, I dominate the "home movie" Reid with a base of 125,000 understand," Doyle bcg1ns. Then he rela tes how. In 1886. he customers, up to eighteen new releases every month, an In· came lo wnte the Sherlock Holmes stones, and for five house fllm restoration fac ility better than any then minutes he gives a rich and humorous history of his possessed by an archive, and more than ninety employees scienUflc detective In a warm Scotch burr. Bul even dearer lo working In a picturesque century-old building of roughly Doyle than Holmes was his belief In the afterlife, and In the 30.000 square feet. Fox Movlctone News, Killlam Shows, and last half of the ftlm the famous author discusses the psychic National Tclcfllm Associates (now Republic Pictures) joined faith for which he endured much hosllllty and lo which he Hal Roach as Important suppliers for film releases, and was so deeply commllled. 12 minutes. television production was added to the company's successful endeavors. The present owners of the Blackhawk Library, See also BUFFALO BIIL'S WILD WEST SHOW, THE David and Kimberly Shepard, were both employed by UFE OF BUFFALO BIIL, SNAPPY TUNES, and WtU Eastin-Phelan dunng these years. David began working RDgers in BIG MOMENTS FROM U1.TU PlCTVRES. closely with Kent Eastin from The American Film lnslllutc In the late 1960s to ensure permanent preservation of Blackhawk's unique original fllms al the Library of Congress. He joined the organization In 1973, becoming Vice Robert Youngson Shorts President for Product Development. Kimberly worked at vanous limes In the Production, Customer Service and from the Pathe News Library Accounting departments. In 1975, Kent Eastin a nd Martin Phelan sold BLAZE BUSTERS Blackhawk to Lee Entcrprtscs, Incorporated, a successful (1 950, Academy Award nominee) newspaper and broadcasting conglomerate. Blackhawk $75 wrestled with the requirements and style of new m anagers Ship fires, Including the Morro Castle and the ill-fated just at the time video c assettes began to redefine home Normandle arc among the amazing s cenes In this entertainment. Basic decisions to emphastzc mall order spectacular collection, a tribute lo fire fighters. 10 minu tes. sales rather tha n a unique produc t line, and heavy Investments In the Beta and CED (mechanical video disc) formats proved very costly. Lee Entcrpr1ses sold the THE WORLD OF KIDS company to Its Blackhawk management team, who struggJed (1951) $75 on until 1985 when Republic Pictures bought It for dlrcct Winner, Academy Award Dest Live-Action Short Subjec1 markellng of Republic's home video line. Republic discontinued film sales and closed the Davenport facility In In this Academy Award winner, c hildren prove tha t size 1987, but continues successful marketing of videocassettes doesn't matter when It comes to boxing. bowling. golfing and as 'The Blackhawk Catalog" from Commerce. CA. other major sports. Tough small frys compete In rodeo David and Kimberly Shepa rd a c quired events, and a young sharp-shooter makes Daddy perspire as Blackhawk's film equipment tn 1986. As FIim Preservation he holds the targets. In a half pint western, kids who can't Associates. they started a "boutique" bus iness rcstonng old reach the stirrups nde tall In the saddle. The Soap Box motion pictures for archives and studios. In 1989, they Derby shows speed-crazy toddlers as reckless as thclr adult purchased the Blackhawk Films library. which rejoined the counterparts. while babes on skis and dMng boards sneer In equipment at Film Preservation Assoclate9' building In the the face of danger. A hidden camera captures the expressive Sun Valley distric t of Los Angeles. This catalog represents reactions of children watching a puppet show that delights, our commitment to projected film as the Ideal means of charms, and tcrrtflcs them. 10 minutes. movie exhibition, and features new titles and Improved edlllon9 as well as reprints from the best Blackh awk See also DAREDEVIL DAYS, GADGETS GALORE , negatives. Our film print quality easily equals and often HORSEHIDE HEROES, I NEVER FORGET A TACE , tr surpasses the high standard set by the "old" Blackhawk, and HAPPENED TO YOU, U GHTER THAN AIR, SPILLS AND your fllm ordel'3 have our persona l attention, whether CHIUS, THIS 1IIECHAN1CAL ADE. T1ll8 WAS l'ESTERDAY placed direc tly or through one of our authonzed dealers. 26 ------···-·--·------Trains & Planes

LOGGING RAil,ROADS OF THE THE GRAF ZEPPELIN $145 Lighter than air, dirigibles were a spectacular form of WEST $145 lnmsporlatlon from the early twenties until the Hindenburg llcrc Is b caullfully photographed and extensive coverage of disaster In the mtd-1930s. The most 8Ut:cc..-.sful rigid airship steam power on three of the Important logging ratlroads of ever built was the hydrogen -filled LZ-127, the Graf Zeppelin. the West -- Southwest Lumber Mills out of Flag,iLafT. Images of the majestic craft are p reserved in these news Arizona; both the Clallam and Grays !!arbor operations of item s, including shots o f the inte rior and v1cws in flight. Rayonier on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State; docking and taking o ff - over the Soviet Union, ilic Arc tic, and the West Side Lumber Compa.,y out of Tuolumne. the Atlantic, ,Japan and the United S tate.'!. 16 minutes. California. You'll sec narrow gauge and s la mlanl gauge steam power -- S hay and l lctslcr geared s team lo<·omottvcs -­ MallcLq - · saddle tank Jobst Sharp curvelel -- high trestles - LIGHTER THAN AIR long trains nf logs ro<'king and rolling along through cuts (1953) $75 and gashc,s in the forest! 18 minu tes at 24 fps, silent. Pcrhap,i ncwreel men used to dream that they. too, would roll their camera Just at the moment a large German dirigible explodccl on the ground. TI1l s tightly-edited Hobert THE THUNDER OF STEAM IN Youngson t:0mptlallon contains that great Pathe footage of Uie lllnc!,·nburg, along wilh glimpses of the Graf Zeppelin, THE BLUE RIDGE $165 the Akron, the Macon, and other blimps. balloons and Recently released for the first time in 16mm color famou:< lc·ons of lightc.:r-1.han-air flight. JO minutes. Kent Eastin. 13lackhawk s founder aml an cxlr,,n~dinary rail fan, felt that this was one of the rnos.t dramatic railro,1d PIONEER PLANES, PILOTS AND films <.-vcr Issued. l'hotogmphcd l>y Fred Mc u·od, most of the scene,:; were s h ot in 1958 in 'hc mou11lalnous area on the DAREDEVILS $145 Norfolk & Western's mail line between Roanoke and 13cdford, Virginia. You'll sec the N&W8 tough ar ticula ted lJnlquc scrncs of avia lion from 1906- 1914, including all locomotives In the 2 6 6 4 and 2 -8 -8 -2 wheel arrangcmn1ts, famous p ioneers. Some material is dupey. but U,c content L~ pulling and push ing on the: mountain grades, and the 4-8-4 amazing. SIient, no music track; 23 minutes at 18 f.p.s. passenger locomotives on so111c of U1e road 's name trains s u ch as the Powhatan Arrow, the Cavalier and the TIUS MECHANICAL AGE Pocahon tas. ·11,c direct nriguwl ,;ournl of the locomotlvcs on (1 956, Academy Award Winner) the Tll uc Ridge grades, or on tlw speeding pas.,n,gcr trains Is $75 music for every I nil fn n. 20 minutes. A bi,.arrc array of a cronaullcal experiments which almost flew. Funny a nd famous compilation by Hobert Youngson . 10 minutes. WESTERN TRAINS OF LONG AGO $75 lnis compilation of railroad views taken between 1893 and Automobiles & Other 1903 was m acJc in 1958 when Tllackhawk reph otographed evtdcnliary paper positives from the Library of Congress. The results an: rr:markably good considering the age of the THE FIRST GLIDDEN TOUR m aterial. You'!! sec the Northern Pacific Ovcr lirnd Express (1905) $65 at Helena, Monta n a, 1900; the Union Pacific Overland Herc Is a fabulous subject that pictures almost three dozen Limited, 1902: San ta Fe 11fornla L1mitcd, 1898; Southe rn c .. automobtlcs Uia t part1clpated in the firs t competition for Pacific Overla nd Ma il, J 893; Southern Pacific Sunset the Glidden Trophy and the h,11 climb up Ml. Washing ton. Limited, 1898: a nd cxccptlonally good .:overage of the You 'll lelce Winto ri s , Maxwclls, Oa rracqs , Reos, White Georgetown Loop on the Colorado Ccntrai l{;,ilroad, 190..1. Steamers. Stanley Steamers. Pope l lartfords. Pope Toledoes, ·1hc 1893 ,ihol 1s rcpnxlucTd from a cnpynght p ,;nl of 1897 Pierce Great Arrows, a Knox Truck. Ramblers, Cadtllacs, b u t the Southern Pacific hns esl;iblishcd the earlier date for Pac kards, and many other sharp cars of eighty-five yea rs photography. making this scene one of the olclcsl surviving ago. lll"ckhawk's prcpnnt was made from the origin al motion pictures. (No Esta.r prints avallablc- due lo s pecia l rx:g,'.ltivc In 1956. 11 minutes at 18 fps, silent. laboratory rcqutremcnts.) l :l minutes at 18 fps. GADGETS GALORE WHEN STEAM WAS KING $95 (1 955, Academy Award nominee) $75 n cau tlfully pn:scrvcd color scenes of forty-five to fifty ycar,i The coming of the auto -- and "roacls not taken," includin g ago. Includes locomolivc.,i and trains of U,c New I (avcn, New the Locomotive car, the "bac-kwards " car, the Dynospherc York Central. Uessemer and Lake Eric, Che8apcakc and (shaped hke a giant ltrc) and a submanne car that runs out of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nic kel Plate. Loulsv1lk and Nashvtllc, gag underwa ter. JO murntc«. Eric, Great Northern, Northern Pac-ific, Union Pacific. Te>.as and New Orleans (S.P.) and Santa Fe. l'hotographcd and produced by Carl Dudley, with music ,ieorc by ,Jon Mirsalis. THE ROMANTIC DAYS OF FIRE 10 minutes at 24 f.p..s .. HORSES $75 Unlll the mc kclodeon boom created pres.sure on the Infant movie industry for a regular flow of leltory films, films of COAST TO COAST IN 48 HOURS real--and s tagcd--cvcnls were staples in vaudeville houses. (1 928) $145 Picturesque fire subjects were particularly popular, and An early sound a dvertising film made fo r TAT Maddux Blackhawk's collection was restored some three decades ago Alrltnes (later TWA) s h owing travel from New York City to from U1e ortg111al copyright deposit prints in the Library of Los Angeles in 250-mile alternating plane and train hops in Congress. Included are scen es taken in Nc.:w York City; only 48 hours. Lots of fw1I 20 minutes. Schenectady. New York; Chelsea. Massachusetts; a nd Lanca.~tcr, Penn.qylvanla. l:l min. al 18 f.p.s.

27 NEW 16mm RELEASES FROM HAL ROACH STUDIOS (Restricted to United States and Canada)

PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (1932) $395 Here la the original uncut version of this Laurel & Hardy favorite -· restoring more than five minutes of footage which has been miasing from the film for decades, with all original titles, improved picture and bell-clear sound! It's 1917; Stan and Ollie are recruited for the Army ("Jusl as I thought -- a couple of crummy, no-good s lackers!"); after their wartime escapades, they keep a promise made to their buddy killed in action, locate his little girl (the people are named Smith), and reunite her with her wealthy grandparents. Wrote a critic for the New York Herald-Tribune: 'The gags, if now and then somewhat moth-eaten, kept the Capitol audience In gales of laughter .... Or rather, It would be more accurate to say the use of these gags by Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy." Directed by George Marshall; the cast includes Donald Dillaway, Charles Middleton, Billy Gilbert, Grady Sutton, James Finlayson, Jacquie Lyn. 69 minutes.

WHISPERING WHOOPEE (1930) $145 Charley Chase hopes the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce will buy some property he has there -- if he shows their purchasing committee a good time. To cinch the sale, Charley hires three, er, ladies of the evening to whoop things up big. But Instead of the original buyers, Rockaway sends three dourpusses. All looks bad until Charley breaks the Ice with a game of post office, and the butler serves practically pure alcohol billed as Juice. We especially like the Rockaway Booster song, where ''verdant hills" rhymes with "knitting mills". This very funny film ends with a seltzer fight on a truly Wagnerian scale. Featuring Anita Garvin. Thelma Todd, Dell Henderson, Carl Slockdale; directed by James W. Home. 21 minutes.

THE SPANKING AGE (1928) $165 Newly restored, IBE SPANKING AGE Is one of the rarest extant Our Gang comedies, never televised nor circulated on film since its first release by MGM in 1928. It's also a real charmer! Wheezer and Mary Ann are neglected In favor of their stepmother's own unctious child. Jean Darling. The old meanie abuses the two kids. who take It out on Pete the Pup. who in tum goes after the cat. "Spanked if they did, spanked if they didn't ... so they did ...... Mary Ann decides to throw an elegant party with homemade shrimp salad and Invites the Gang to the culinary disaster which results. Beyond its wit and general felicity, IBE SPANKING AGE is a real stylistic experiment. Its camera always assumes the child's point of view, so adults are shown only from the waist down. Perhaps director Robert McGowan was tired of the publicity being given to fancy imported filmmakers and wanted to show that even the humble two-reel comedy could scale the heights of cinema art! Very nice prints; score from MGM Vitaphone discs. 20 minutes.

THE BIG KICK (1930) $145 Harry Langdon's 1929-1930 series of two-reel comedies for Hal Roach has a terrible reputation. Some of the films may deserve It, but THE BIG KICK Is very. very good. Although there is a story -­ detective Edgar Kennedy. hot on the trail of two bootleggers, eventually captures them in a shootout at the gas station where Harry works -- Langdon's elf character spends most of the film In his own eccentric world, performing extended solo pantomime like a baby with an exceptionally long attention span! Langdon works off props -- a watering can. an air compressor. a balloon, a row of dummies -- and sets his own pace. The comedy makes a clever use of sound effects. and Harry has a few lines of dialogue, but since there's hardly anyone for him lo talk to, at least half the film is wordless (there is a musical score of breezy '20's favorites like "Ain't We Got Fun" and "What'Jl I Do?" checkerboarded with stock silent picture themes). THE BIG KICK compares favorably with the two­ reel Mack Sennett comedies which made Langdon a star. Blackhawk's printing negative Is made from a nitrate fine grain and quality is very good. 20 minutes.